Before you read: I mean to strictly follow the prompt “The straight-A high school student falls in love with the troll in her locker.” It will happen. Please wait patiently. …
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Out of the blue, my father commanded that I should never eat Bugs Bunny. Bugs Bunny is the feature character in the Looney Tunes entourage, and a mainstay of the …
Author’s note: The dialogue in this story is written in colloquial Malaysian English (of the variety spoken in the Klang Valley). Malaysian English often eschews English grammar in favour of …
Trigger warning: Contains depiction or discussion of violence and death. It’s been a year since COVID-19 restrictions prevented Minhua Zhang from leaving the Lis’ house in North York. Tears welled …
My clothes are my first line of defense. Matching the local style is an easy form of security. Safe from prying eyes and too many questions. Dressing up like this …
Thirty years after the pandemic swept through the country swiftly and cruelly, forcing a state of emergency in the whole of Malaysia and the evacuation of the entire population, I …
I come from a long line of men who have served in the army. My Ah-Gong (Grandpa) was a pilot, my dad was in the army, and my brother had …
The stone remained cold and silky gray in the boy’s palm. He was in the middle of a procedure that many in the village had seen performed and found nothing …
The kid’s girlfriend phoned it in to his parents, who ran a red light at Bloor and Jarvis on the way to the viaduct. I squint at the nurse’s …
It happened because I looked poor today. My mother was an elegant woman, even in the most undignified chapters of our life in America. She said that spending her youth …