FICTION

“Good Plates”

Short story, published by New Delta Review, Issue 13.1, 2022. Winner of the Matt Clark Award and nominated for Best of the Net.

Yin Yin’s mother had intended to save her best plates for a special occasion. But when the apocalypse was approaching, Yin Yin finally took them down from the cupboard where they had been kept for more than thirty years.

Photo credit: Annie Spratt, Unsplash.

“Weeds”

Short story, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021. Published by adda.

Wee thought he could explain. He could tell the man he was only pretending.

“Like Nowhere Else”

Short story “Like Nowhere Else” was published in a limited edition zine, Heart Locker, along with “A Curse of the Heart” by Zedeck Siew.

"Bird"

Short story "Bird" was a finalist for the DK Dutt Memorial Prize and awarded the Runner Up prize. The story is published in the anthology, Bitter Root, Sweet Fruit, ed. Sharon Bakar and Dipika Mukherjee (2017).

If some people could live in treehouses, I thought, we could live down here.  

"Wanton Noodles"

My short story "Wanton Noodles", first published in Little Basket: New Malaysian Writing 2016, was selected for the Cerpen Terbaik (Best Short Stories) 2016 anthology, ed. Ainul Muaiyanah Sulaiman.

"Wanton Noodles"

"Wanton Noodles" was published in the anthology Little Basket 2016: New Malaysian Writing (Fixi), ed. Catalina Rembuyan, Lee Ee Leen, Ted Mahsun, Tshiung Han See.