Fiction Archives

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

IN THE DARKNESS, she counts them off like sheep. Black sheep.And another…And another…And another…Blinded by the night, disorientated by...

By Siobhan Harvey

The tumult and the shouting dies;The Captains and the Kings depart…Rudyard Kipling, ‘Recessional’ SAM COMES UP to her at work....

By Craig Cliff

AT HOME IN Melbourne, they play kick-to-kick wherever they can: in the backyard, the hallway, at the park, on...

By Brooke Davis