short fiction
Stories I feel are most encapsulating of me as a writer are “Icariana” (tender apocalypse flash fiction), “The Lighthouse Keeper’s Guide to Pulau Belakang Mati” (historical/magical realism flash fiction), “Laura Lau Will Drain You Dry” (campy feminine horror), “What Becomes of Curious Minds” (diaspora Wonderland), “Red, Scuttle When The Ships Come Down” (magical realism inspired by migrant labour/prison history), and “The Name Ziya” (decolonial fantasy dark academia). But you can find all the short fiction I’ve published since 2022 (with a more curated selection from 2021 and earlier) below.
You can also listen to some audio versions on Spotify here.
2025
“They Will Give Us A Home“, Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity (Erewhon Books)
“Red, Scuttle When The Ships Come Down“, Uncanny Magazine (forthcoming)
“The Name Ziya“, Reactor (forthcoming)
2024
“What Becomes of Curious Minds“, Lightspeed
> Author interview
“The Last Singapore Girls“, To Root Somewhere Beautiful (Outland Entertainment)
“An Eye For An Eye“, NO FLASH/Third Eye (National Gallery Singapore)
“Single Use“, “The Cool Girls Have the Eyes” & “Resistant to Death“, Ctrl Alt Future (NTU School of Humanities x Smart Nation Office)
“When You Think About Me“, The Straits Times
2023
“Laura Lau Will Drain You Dry“, Nightmare Magazine
> Author interview
“Concerning the Fantastic Native Flora of the Indo-Chinese Padma Valley“, Pseudopod
2022
“Icariana“, Baffling Magazine
> Recommended in Tor’s must-read short speculative fiction for January 2023
> Recommended in Locus Magazine
> Reprinted in We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2022 (Neon Hemlock) and 2022 Best of Utopian Speculative Fiction Anthology (Android Press)
“Love Heart Soup“, Augur Magazine
> Recommended in Locus Magazine
> Reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy, Vol 2
“Hundred-Handed One“, Uncanny Magazine
> Tor Nightfire’s Best Horror Short Fiction Feb 2022
“The Lighthouse Keeper’s Guide to Pulau Belakang Mati“, Flash Fiction Online
“Lay My Stomach On Your Scales“, Strange Horizons
“Wife, Skin, Keeper, Slick“, Fish Eats Lion Redux (Epigram Books)
“First Strikes the Lightning“, Anathema Magazine
“Wok Lung Hei“, Tree & Stone
“Rooted“, Reckoning
“That Is Their Tragedy“, Fright 1 (Epigram Books/Storytel)
selected from 2021 & earlier
“Wildlife Encounter”, Strange Horizons
“The 74th District”, Speculative City
> Recommended in Tor’s must-read short speculative fiction for April 2021
> Recommended in Locus Magazine
“Facechanger”, perhappened
> Nominated for Best Small Fictions
“Tales from the Spirit South”, Sword & Kettle Press
