If I cup my hands just right, I can hold every fading memory of being a toddler in the Philippines. I don’t remember which store my mother and I meandered …
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You wouldn’t think something I do every month would be such a big deal. But it’s a dreaded chore — every bloody time. Tonight, as the appointed hour draws near, …
Pik-Sheun Fung makes her novel debut with Ghost Forest, delivering an experimental writing stroke with artistic mastery. The work comes right at a time when we need it most. With …
Hong Kong for my grandparents arriving as a ship is prone to do, in and out of Victoria Harbour, they stayed: he learning to count the freight, longhand neat in …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
That Which is Unsaid Much of how we communicate with each other is through nonverbal gestures, expressions, and cultural norms. At some point, language ends: “There is a silence that …
In the rare nights that I dream, I see glimpses of her. Dappled sunlight filters through the lush canopy of acacia leaves above, mottling her soft curves cast from white …