Fiction Archives

THE PLANE IS moving backwards. Slowly. You have to stare at the ground to confirm it. Yes, the luggage...

By Tony Davis

Now from the dark, a deeper dark…Elizabeth Coatsworth, ‘Calling in the Cat’ LUKE CROSSES HIS arms against the bluster and...

By Helen Gildfind

ON THE TWENTY-EIGHTH day of Po Lin’s vigil, her mother opened her eyes and said, ‘Don’t pour that cheap...

By Jenn Chan Lyman

THE TELESCOPE SAT slightly apart from the clutter of the room – aloof, cool, shaded by a closed curtain....

By Omar Musa

‘IS HE HERE, yet?’ he asked, craning his neck to the left and right.‘Who?’‘The guy, what’s his name?’‘The guy?...

By Maggie Tiojakin

LOOKING AT THE mammoth spot-lit ads for chubby babies and running shoes, he feels very far from home. When...

By Anjum Hasan

IT WAS AFTER ten at night when they finally arrived – three men and a woman, faces shining and...

By Sheng Keyi

THERE IS ONLY one way to sing like Frank Sinatra. Keep your body straight, taut like a rope. ‘The...

By Ploy Pirapokin

A FAT SHADOW fell on my desk. ‘Let me see your notebook,’ Pak Firdaus said, but I gripped it so...

UNKNOWN TO THEM, all of us on the call desk could tell when the bosses were listening in. Common...

By Glenn L Diaz

THE BOY WANTS to say goodbye to his mother, but he wakes after everyone. A vigorous shake from his...

By Siddhartha Deb

I TAKE MY shoes off at the door, step up and into slippers that are far too small. An...

By Romy Ash