Fiction

Kueny isn’t much of a worrier, except maybe when it comes to her father, the Custodian of a Thousand Generations, whose soul is hanging by a thread...

Kong jiao wei , Hokkien, means “speaking bird language.” It is a cock-and-bull story, a flight of fancy and, incidentally , the perfect phrase to d...

Balik Kampung is a collection of eight new tales of home written by authors who have lived in their neighbourhoods for 10 years or more. A mysterio...

Balik Kampung 2A: People and Places presents eleven tales by authors ho have lived in the respective neighbourhoods for at least ten years. What wa...

Balik Kampung 2B: Contemplations presents nine new tales by authors who have lived in the respective neighbourhoods for at least ten years. How doe...

Ten established and new writers have written ten short stories that are set in Seletar, Yishun, Marsiling, Ang Mo Kio and Upper Thompson. Because e...

Here are nine exciting tales that will deepen your appreciation of three eastern and six western locations of Singapore and give you fresh insights...

Balik Kampung 3C: Central Corridor contains stories that feature the central spine of Singapore: from Bukit Timah, Bukit Merah, Farrer Road, Cairnh...

Uncle: we all know him. This is the man who picks his nose on the bus, who will fight for his country and fight you to do it his way. He will shout...

BooksActually's Gold Standard 2016 is a highly anticipated new annual anthology from indie bookstore BooksActually, comprising short fiction by the...

A capsule collection of surreal short stories from one of Australia's rising stars. A woman arrives on the seventh level of Heaven, only to realise...

A Singapore emigrant muses about the HDB heartlands and her adopted British lifestyle. An undergrad gets culture shock travelling abroad to Canada...

Writers and cats have long enjoyed a special affinity, unsurprisingly since both spend much time sitting around and judging people. Discover the Li...

In the Company of Heroes, an anthology of seven plays by seasoned theatre practitioner Verena Tay, taps into the realm of myth and archetype, while...

This premiere issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Laos and Vietnam. Inside ...

This issue of LONTAR presents speculative writing from and about Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. Inside these pages, y...

A woman reminded of her past through the acts of her grandson. A band of swordsmen on a failed mission. The forbidden love of Zheng He, the great C...

Figures from Greek mythology take up residence in contemporary Singapore in this collection of stories that explores the pain and dilemma of modern...

White, New Jersey wastoid Sean Kerry is fresh out of jail, working at a dead-end burger stand on the shore. His Black parole officer, James O'Keefe...

Audrey Chin writes to share her world, imaginary and otherwise. In this anthology, she offers the beating hearts of a cannibal picking up a ghoul a...

It begins with the realisation that she’s been praying to a phallic symbol. But no one explains to Pavarthi why she has otherwise been raised in a ...

“...God knows when it all began but I know for a fact that it didn’t begin with Samuel. Just as I don’t believe in beginnings, I don’t believe in a...

When Ani is forcibly married, her dreams of becoming a teacher are shattered. Employed as a servant at Rain Tree, a colonial home, she indulges in ...

Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan's dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man's path to self-discovery in the wa...

A mysterious terrorising force hounding a group of schoolgirls at a campfire. A couple trying to conceive in a post-apocalyptic world. Two gay men,...

Longing, familiarity and hope fill the pages of this new edition of Madeleine Thien's collection of stories, which explore the subtle dimensions of...

False starts, chance encounters, careless mistakes, strokes of luck: Are we the sum of our actions, or of our possibilities? Somewhere Else, Anothe...

Two gods sit on a park bench and compare universes. A woman has to find herself after discovering she’s an unwanted clone. A man changes with every...

translated by Jeremy Tiang A bride is haunted by her dead lover on her wedding day. A medieval scholar’s act of betrayal goads his wife into murder...

The Billion Shop was a shop near my office that sold paper money and other artefacts for ethnic Chinese people to burn as offerings to their dead. ...

A queer little fairy tale about a dangerous love between two boys with unusual appendages. The story is short and its lesson brutal, but therein li...

Three specially selected school plays by seasoned theatre practitioner Verena Tay, including the award-winning The Car. These three plays tap into ...

TALAQ (First self-published in 1999)Talaq came under the media spotlight in 2000, when the Public Entertainment Licensing Unit (PELU) in Singapore ...

The country is killing her people. An unexplained crime wave washes over Singapore and Minister Chew is tasked with the responsibility of ending it...

A boy creates monsters from nanotech clay and programs them by reciting stories. A young woman finds the secret to save their doomed generation shi...

Illustrated by Stephanie Raphaela Ho Being brave isn’t about never being afraid. It is about being scared and yet taking the leap and trying. Min R...

The Empress has guided the expansion of the colonised universe for millenia - the operating system of a vast civilisation, a shepherd whose overrid...

Delilah has her dream job working as a diva for the globe-trotting and glamorous Cirque Obélisque, the world's most famous modern circus. When her ...

The hospital air conditioner is in need of service again. 4 bodies awaiting identification and autopsy, wake up at the morgue, in anticipation of t...

"If there ever were a National Dish contest for Singapore, I'd confidently vote CHICKEN RICE as the winner. Mexico has its tacos; Italy has its piz...

"Comfort food. Cholesterol food. Homecooked food. Heart attack food. Whatever one calls it, the dish SALTED VEGETABLES AND DUCK SOUP is no longer a...

Velouria is a seminal collection of microfiction. Daren Shiau, better known as a novelist and a poet, experimented with flash fiction in between le...

Families come packaged in all shapes and sizes. At the heart of every family unit is love — or what passes off as love.  A father and son bond over...

'The phenomenon began with birds flying higher and things falling slower. Now the phenomenon is everywhere and it has changed the way we touch each...

Neighbour's Luck 继获得2017年金笔奖小说组第一名之后，这是原非的短篇小说作品首次结集。10则风格各异的短篇小说，独居的男子爱上了一张照片，却对照片的主人并未心动；小女孩在父母刷洗血迹的声音中甜甜睡去，却每天深夜在特定的时间开始侦察；心如死灰的美女和第十二个男人相亲，得知对方...