12 Ergebnisse.

An illustrated edition of a collection of 140-character micro short stories, with themes ranging from love, blood, bodies, emotions, supernatural to just weird.

It is the swinging 60s in seedy Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur, in recently renamed South East Asian country of Malaysia. Nightclub singer Ah Lan can make the whole room stand up, in more ways than one. Her musical coach Sammi is looking for love from a GI on R&R, from the war in Vietnam. Elderly neighbours the Tans are trying to fix her up with Affendi, and he does not really bartend at a club. While Ah Lan puzzles over the subtle changes happening t...

Tuala looks like you and me-human, that is-but something is not right. Trapped on earth, an offspring of a union of human and fae, Tuala has gossamer wings on her back masquerading as tattoos. When she gets hangry, she turns into something other than her sweet seductive svelte self. She needs to be sated so she can earn her earthly upkeep as a sex worker in sweltering Kuala Lumpur. She must imbibe humans-whole, body and soul, all the blood and...

Tuala looks like you and me-human, that is-but something is not right. Trapped on earth, an offspring of a union of human and fae, Tuala has gossamer wings on her back masquerading as tattoos. When she gets hangry, she turns into something other than her sweet seductive svelte self. She needs to be sated so she can earn her earthly upkeep as a sex worker in sweltering Kuala Lumpur. She must imbibe humans-whole, body and soul, all the blood and...

A mini collection, beginning, naturally, with the first day of the new year, whichever it was, probably the pandemic year of 2020. It was exacerbated by a long bout of water cuts caused by a factory dumping toxic waste into the river. The rest of the collection : new year resolution, passing of a friend's husband, my escape from damage when I fell backwards down a flight of stairs, angelic presence, another death, this time my cat, lucid dream...

In this anthology, Red Riding Hood gets a makeover to a Malaysian dystopia, the death of a husband spells more than loss, a father confronts foreign invaders, a Goldilocksian home invader must eat to survive, a colleague struggles over mixed signals, train passengers witness an accident, while another guesses a passenger's gender, readers learn the magic of poetry, ghosts cross-dress, and others at a church get nostalgic, an ultra traditional ...

A sequel to 'Becoming Ah Lan Toh', this new novel continues the ongoing story of Ah Lan. She has now completely transitioned into a full blown man. He is more than merely unusual in his gender transformation. He has managed to outlive all the characters in the last book-by more than a hundred years. He is a very very old gentleman these days. Having lived for over a hundred years, he has come to accept his longevity. But lately he has noticed ...

A boy. A man. A girl. Well, sort of. The boy is of indeterminate heritage. With a name like Arjan, the archer, he looks too light skinned to be South Indian but not sufficiently white to pass for English. He knows nothing about his parents. As a baby, he was abandoned by adults who could not look after him. He has, from then on, lived day to day, alone, in either orphanages or boys homes. And now he is on his way to his new foster home in the ...

In swinging 60s seedy Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur, in recently renamed South East Asian country of Malaysia, cabaret singer Ah Lan is taught a unique method by voice coach Sammi to not only make men clap but to stand up in more ways than one. Sammi is looking for love, setting his sights on one particular GI in the audience, who is on R&R, from the war in Vietnam. And so is Ah Lan. But her chances are slim-she stands a head taller than most Asian m...

East meets West at a New Year party. New kopitiam chef Lee Law Ree or Lawrie is introduced by his employer Mrs Wong to her nephew from San Francisco, Brody, a veritable Greek god born of a union between a Chinese father and a Greek American. Their lust thrums as they set eyes on each other. Lawrie desires more than just dalliance. Will his prayers to his deities be answered? Or will he have to surrender Brody to a Malaysian girl Mrs Wong a...

Handyman, Ah Hung hasn't yet to bring home a girl. His mother decides to match make him to a woman with a goodly dowry. With no odd jobs and no money he is resigned to this solution. Having only done it one time long ago, can he get it up again for a woman? Or will he get sidetracked by a man with body piercings?

The title of this collection hints at the way the poet registers the sounds in his poems as visuals. Readers will encounter poems about sex, love, lust, death, whores, evil, cakes, tablets, cats, public speaking, haikus, gym, the tsunami in Asia, ageing, tripping, clubbing, plus a few whimsical pieces--all colored by synaesthesia. The poet wrote most of them in free verse, but he didn't forget to put in a couple of rhymes in a few, to underpin...