Embodying Venus I HAVE A clear memory of the buttons – large, translucent-white plastic – and the teacher’s fingers unbuttoning the... By Annie Zaidi
Climbing the walls WE PULL UP outside the Centre. The dust resettles on the path, I pay my driver two dollars and... By Romi Grossberg
A fantastic summer evening I WAS THAT age when I was bathing in the season’s first rains without shame or concern for the... By Mohit Parikh
The way one fell Richard the Lionheart waits in a dungeon with his brothers for their father, Henry II, to come kill them.... By Keane Shum
Half a butterfly THE FIRST FEW days I stayed in Dona Paula, I was having a really hard time finding the beaches... By Ellen van Neerven
Vigil 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
Supernova THE TELESCOPE SAT slightly apart from the clutter of the room – aloof, cool, shaded by a closed curtain.... By Omar Musa
Man of the people ‘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
Father, son LOOKING AT THE mammoth spot-lit ads for chubby babies and running shoes, he feels very far from home. When... By Anjum Hasan
A little life IT WAS AFTER ten at night when they finally arrived – three men and a woman, faces shining and... By Sheng Keyi
A cottage for sale THERE IS ONLY one way to sing like Frank Sinatra. Keep your body straight, taut like a rope. ‘The... By Ploy Pirapokin
Incorrigibles A FAT SHADOW fell on my desk. ‘Let me see your notebook,’ Pak Firdaus said, but I gripped it so... By Eliza Vitri Handayani