Black chicken soup
Justina Lim
A short story by Justina Lim.
Tag: fiction
In her grey and silent world
Lia Tjokro
A short story by Lia Tjokro.
Personal ghost stories
Jennifer Luangphonh
Some ghosts aren’t vengeful spectres waiting to shock or scare in the night. Even so, it might still be unbearable to think of them.
Arranged marriage
Areej Kiani
Gossip spreads in a Pakistani neighbourhood after a couple’s daughter elopes with a man late at night.
The Word Museum
Damhuri Muhammad
What if politicians had to be confronted with all the words they’d threaded into false promises?
Lantern ghost
Ayesha Khan
A short story by Ayesha Khan
The sea within
Mahen Bala and Gerhard Hoffstaedter
When rising sea levels threaten to submerge the gravesite of his father, a young man is forced to return to his hometown and confront the dilemma between honouring his father’s dying wishes or to give in to nature.
The third dog / Space bound
Peta Murray and Maggie Tiojakin
“Einstein saw space and time as an intrinsically linked existence: how the passing of time is relative to the space we inhabit, which is to say, how we find meaning in our lives depends greatly on where we stand.”
Child of Heaven
Lý Văn Sâm
A short story by Lý Văn Sâm, translated from Vietnamese by Ryan Nelson and Khanh Hoa Le.
By the canal
Linda Collins and Noelle Q. de Jesus
A piece of flash fiction by Linda Collins and Noelle Q. de Jesus. Commissioned as part of a collaboration between RMIT’s nonfiction/lab and Mekong Review.
The two gumamelas
Marbin Gesher Jay S. Deniega
A short story by Marbin Gesher Jay S. Deniega.
Fate ball
Damhuri Muhammad
A short story by Damhuri Muhammad
The somnambulist
Aditya Narayan Sharma
A short story by Aditya Narayan Sharma
White snow, silver moon
Ngan Nguyen
A short story by Ngan Nguyen
The Bamboo Rat Farmer
Katrina Yu
A short story by Katrina Yu.
The Claim
Akiya
A short story by Akiya, translated by Adriana Nordin Manan.
Mr Kwan
Kathrina Mohd Daud
A short story by Kathrina Mohd Daud.
Guido done gone
Calvin Godfrey
A short story by Calvin Godfrey
The quiet tailor
Eliane Boey
A short story by Eliane Boey
Parakeets
Sobia Ali
A short story
Under the circumstance
Shih-Li Kow
A short story by Shih-Li Kow
Unmade lives
Vikram Kapur
A short story by Vikram Kapur
White clouds flying
Bao Ninh
A short story by the author of The Sorrow of War
Night-shift scenes*
Wong Yi
A short story by Wong Yi
Dear TC
Andrew Lam
A short story by Andrew Lam
Useless
Preeta Samarasan
A new short story from the author of Evening Is the Whole Day
The Koro Report
Faisal Tehrani
The dictator with a peculiar condition
One day, there is Mother and Radian
Avianti Armand
A short story from Avianti Armand
This Time
Sreehevi Iyer
Fiction: On the eve of Malaysia’s general election, Mahathir visits Anwar in hospital.
Made in Cambodia
Robert Horne
As Malee jumped down from the tuk-tuk she felt the clamour all around her …
Dark mess
Alasdair Richards
Noir is a genre of fiction that delivers so little
The Viet bride
Trang Ha
I would forever remember Dan’s silence. Silently loving me. Silent before my family’s insults and dissuasion.