Category: Nonfiction
Seven
By Trini Lau | A week after naming all the skinks, I found my first corpse.
Things That Could Not Die
By Lemuel T. | I sat until the crickets sang. Until the grass froze. Until the families packed up.
A Childhood in Thirteen Vignettes
By Chow Yuet Yi Alice | I never bought any flowers from her because all she did was sell flowers.
101 To Kennedy Town
By Charis Poon | ‘It’s really dangerous when they don’t know how to get home. I would have walked him to the right bus stop if I wasn’t in a rush.’
Four Phases of Rowing
By Tash L. | The moment I put on that windproof jacket, eager for the nod of approval from my coaches, my goal had shifted.
Afterword
From Hong Kong Without Us | How could poetry ever be homegrown in Hong Kong, when literature is just another costume of colonization, when poems sit rotting in the most secret cells of people’s hearts?
How We Will Remember
By Ploi Pirapokin | What happens after a fire? Who dusts, sweeps, and tosses the remains out into open fields, to sow, replant, and tend to new growth? Do you need to know how a burn feels to recognize what it is like to be soothed?
Making Myths: An Interview with Charlotte Mui
“Mythology is a veil I use to cloud my modes of expression in.”