Author

Allan Cho

808s

by Allan Cho

And you have no materiality. Yet you exist, somehow, as a shelf in the library, a gacha ball, or a cat in a box. A dictionary is filled with differences, …

Good Daughter

by Allan Cho

You nod your head through the bitter taste of dread that threatens to stain the smile you perfected on the kitchen tile. You do as you’re told: be kind, be …

Sweet Tamarind Tree

by Allan Cho

I’ve forgotten that these pages flip over. They’re transparent, exposing my skin. Writing my story again. We all arrived on earth the same way but how do we leave it …

Crab Guts

by Allan Cho

steam, salt, pink crabs on their backs grandpa sucks the spit through his teeth splits the belly open drinks from the shell, announces this delicacy loud enough to reach the …

Writers on Writers

by Allan Cho

Ricepaper’s Executive Editor and multi-genre writer, Allan Cho, interviews PP Wong, author of the new novel, Slice the Water.   A dystopian thriller, a speculative fiction, and a coming-of-age story, Slice …