selected short fiction

Free stories to try:

For something short: Icariana or The Lighthouse Keeper’s Guide to Pulau Belakang Mati
For the horror of being a teenage girl: Laura Lau Will Drain You Dry or Lay My Stomach On Your Scales
For something to chew on: What Becomes of Curious Minds
For weird nature: Hundred-Handed One or Concerning the Fantastic Native Flora of the Indo-Chinese Padma Valley
For something tender: Love Heart Soup or Icariana

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

2024

What Becomes of Curious Minds“, Lightspeed
> Author interview

They Will Give Us A Home, To Root Somewhere Beautiful (Outland Entertainment)

An Eye For An Eye“, NO FLASH (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)

Untitled Christmas Story, The Straits Times

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)

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

“pink dots & renegades”, Second Chance Lit

the water under the millennium bridge ripples white at night”, the winnow mag

Tales from the Spirit South”, Sword & Kettle Press

The Mirror of Longing”, Luna Station Quarterly