• Falling Teeth: Season 5

    Joy Huang Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 This is an ode to dreams, serialised —dreams bad, good, very, very terrible,so-so dreams, dreams you dream offor a second and immediately want toforget the next moment. Dreams thathave a part one—the flush of thetoilet, you open your eyes, then—two,three, four, five. Part six happens thenext day when…

  • In My Worst Dreams, We Are Better People

    Elizabeth Deng Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 Elizabeth (she/her) is a twenty-five year old writer born and raised in Singapore. Her past literary experiences include being the head of PLAYSET! magazine, a local-based literary magazine for youths (currently on hiatus). Prose and poetry writing are her predominant modes of art, though she has dabbled in…

  • Wayfinding

    after Marla Bendini’s Where are we going? Andrew Kirkrose Devadason Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 Tell me the one about the wine-dark sea. Goddess, I wander and am lost. A man told me once that he was tired of hearing songs about the sky, felt that everything the heavens held had been touched so many…

  • SUTURE

    Andrew Kirkrose Devadason Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 SUTURE was originally published in the journal OF ZOOS. Portions of this text have appeared in the journal Minarets and the anthologies A Given Grace (Squircle Line Press 2021) and New Singapore Poetries (Gaudy Boy, 2022). Andrew Kirkrose Devadason (he/him; b. 1997) is a Singaporean poet and student of linguistics. Under his birth…

  • The Scroll of Spilling Out Like Wet Rice

    Tse Hao Guang Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 to the towering city of books with a faint heart and the ripple of my face in a pool of rainwater, water which is like the wisdom of the ancients whereas the wisdom of the moderns is like light striking the sign of the dimsum restaurant, wooden…

  • guidelines on the use of common areas in housing development board estates

    Nathaniel Chew Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 take the stairs at their words: scrimshaw, scabland, rag and bone. take everything the rust-kissed shopping cart will rockabye: tarp blanket settling new landscape, self portrait as blackened joss tin, newsprint cairn, sole bicycle wheel flayed to spoke. speak of wisps sculpting collars, slow exhale of humid night…