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
“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)
Untitled Christmas Story, 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)
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
