![]() They come from faraway places by Carrick Ang They Called Me The Hyacinth Girl by Victor Fernando R. The Heart of the Rain Tree by Geraldine Choo Tales from the Lonely Tree by Vanessa Ni Qiu Rui Be entertained by a motley gang of characters both strange and the deranged, uber-rational and supernatural, feathered or plucked in The Ayam Curtain. The reader steps into a technological dystopia one moment and wakes up a crow in the next story, all within the space of a hundred words.Įxpect a spirit war in underground tunnels, genetically-modified babies and a Singapore overrun by anti-government spies in these short stories. ![]() ![]() Kong jiao wei, in Hokkien, means “speaking bird language.” It is a cock-and-bull story, a flight of fancy and, incidentally, the perfect phrase to describe this collection of microfiction with a quintessentially Singaporean flavour. ![]()
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