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Short Fiction
 5 min

Klyuchi

Kevin Cook

Scheduled to leave on the 0620 flight to Stockholm, this time she packed light since it was a short run. Arriving at the coffee shop in the terminal, she orders breakfast a little earlier than usual ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

Sunset in Tsim Sha Tsui

晟軒 羅

"Next stop, Tsim Sha Tsui Station"

As soon as I stepped out of the carriage, I walked towards the roof garden platform of the parking lot of Harbour City. I put on my headphones, I sat on the ...  [+]
Poetry
Short Fiction
 4 min

Happy New Year

Qian CHEN

It was weird that I had never considered strangling myself with a tie. While pondering upon my previous trials, I removed the tie from the shirt, wrapped it around my neck, and cinched it as tightly ...  [+]
Poetry
 1 min

Death

Hoi Kim Lau

"Part of me dies within me,"
you said.
But why?
But why won't you cry, and wail, and ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Doubting Thomas

EA Douglas

I had been working at the diner for like, a year and a half. The place off the highway, outside that little butt-scrap of a town. It was an okay joint, with a couple of cracked vinyl seats and ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Charging Flame

james duffy

"Shite." Seamus sighed, as he watched the sun fall over the horizon.

He hadn't meant to spend so much time in town. Now he was paying for it. He sighed, he couldn't wait to get back to Maeve ...  [+]
Poetry
 1 min

Fahrenheit

Qian CHEN

Fresh tomatoes stay quiet in the market
Watching fake fantasies, listening to rosy rhymes ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

Uncontrollable

Bertha de los Rios Bustamante

TW: blood, m*rder

When I came back to consciousness, my head hurt. I felt the light through my closed eyelids, and even though I realized that if I opened my eyes, it would hurt more, the ...  [+]
Creative Nonfiction
 2 min

My favorite type of trash

Ayazhan Kadessova

As a kid, I was always excited to show my illustrations to everyone I knew. Carrying my heavy old tablet to school, I loved hearing compliments on my neon-colored digital creations from my classmates ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
 1 min

Lake Song

Zhouyuan Xu

Softer than satin, warmer than May
Meanders through the mountains, flows towards the sea ...  [+]
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry