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Short Fiction
 1 min

The Wanderers of the Night

Asmita Maltesh

The moon is not enough to light up the room or scare away the "monsters." At 21, I still struggle with sleeping in the quiet and hollow darkness. It is lonely, cold, and stern—a void of nothingness as ...  [+]
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 3 min

The Moon

Dylan Rossi

What he misses most about Earth are the TV commercials, the ones where British men in tuxedos drive expensive cars and say things like Dare To Be, or the ones where a family is gathered at a ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

A Dreamer’s Descent into Dreams.

Ali MW

She wears a dark hooded cloak. It overshadows most of her face, sharp features deftly hidden beneath darkness. Poised, she stands carefully watching out for the slight ruffle of the leaves that sit ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

To Kill A Unicorn

Ihsan Sim

Dara Brown lay in a pool of blood and shrapnel, sputtering droplets of reddish saliva into the pristine snow as a hazy darkness began to settle over the corner of his eyes. He had witnessed a ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Sun Showers

Coco Li

The monkey was staring at me.
I looked away, stepping aside to give it a wide berth. Making eye contact with animals always made me nervous since I knew some thought eye contact was a sign of ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 2 min

An unexpected encounter

Evangeline Chai

When an unexpected incident occurs in one's life, is it purely a once-in-a-blue-moon event? Or is there a deeper, hidden meaning waiting to be discovered?
Allow me to recount such an encounte ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

fuzz

joshua tan

It doesn't come too quickly.  Some say it comes without warning. 
Some doubt that it's really there, that it's not something perceptible. And they'd be right.  But they'd be wrong. It exists ...  [+]
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Metamorphosis

H. Hong Jun

One morning, after a long night of troubled dreams, a cockroach awoke to unusual sensations. At first, as if still thinking it all a dream, it stood for some moments in a pleasant stupor, regarding ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Polishing Hazel

Ledy Jem

"Doctor, what's wrong with her."
Six-year-old Hazel shifts uncomfortably, like a convict in an interrogation chair, as her mother rattles off her symptoms. It sounds like she's dying, afflicted ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Mirror, Mirror?

Hilda Reid

I have been long exalted as the explorer of the forgotten. I traverse the chilliest peaks and the most blistering of jungles to exhume the secrets of past civilisations. My bedroom is littered with ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

The Apples of 134A Tuffnell Park Road

Ariel Wee

Robert and Mary Jones's house sits on Tuffnell Park Road, number 134A. Mostly a gift from Mary's family, but Robert had a couple of dimes saved up from the yard where he worked back in 1923. The ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 3 min

The Boy and the Bracelet

Skye Wang

It was the middle of the night, and the boy tinkered still.

Alone, nested in the heartwood of a great World Tree, far removed from any semblance of civilisation – the boy tinkered.

A ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 1 min

A Sea in the Living Room

Ana Zeng

Once in a blue moon, the sea forgot its boundaries and crept into our homes. Not like the hurricanes that howled and thrashed, no, this was gentle, as if the ocean had grown weary of its solitude ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 4 min

Recess

Ananaya Mittal

The thin film of night lifted - and for the first time in her three thousand eight hundred and seven days of existence, Jody saw the playground for what it was. 
There was something about this ...  [+]
Short Fiction
 5 min

Moonlight Murder

Ryan Singh

I don't owe the force anything. 
Think of this as a personal favour. Partner to partner.
Our partnership ended long ago. Now if you excu-
If it ain't a partner you see me as, then ...  [+]
Short Fiction