Stories

Over 50 of my stories have appeared in various media.

If you like a story, please support it by donating to the journal or buying the anthology it is featured in. Kind letters are also welcomed.

Best

These stories had some impact, an award, or were featured in a well-known venue.

• “Dei’s World.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly. January 2020.
• “That Sarcastic 90s Mando-Pop.” The Cimarron Review. January 2018.
• “Just to Spite the Recession.” Word Riot. November 2016.
• “Libido Ergo Sum.” Feminist Studies 41.2 (2015): 463-475.
• “A Travel Blog.” Anak Sastra. January 31, 2014. Feature/interview.
• “The Last of Its Kind.” Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond. 2013
• “The Reunion” in Smokelong Quarterly. Apr 2012. Feature/interview.
• “Never Let Your Enemy Be Above You” Annalemma. Oct 2011. Wigleaf’s top of 2013.

Personal Favorites

Stories that did not get much attention, but I like anyway.

• “Don’t Proceed.” The Kartika Review. August 2017.
• “Red Is the Color.” TAYO Literary Magazine. Summer 2016.
• “No Name Islands” in Amok: Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction. August 2014.
• “Leaving the Womb” Hawai’i Pacific Review. June 2014.
• “What Fell Beneath the Tracks.” Liar’s League Hong Kong. June 2013.
• “Strange Gifts.” DecomP: A Literary Magazine. Nov 2012    

Best of the Blogs

I can take months to write a blog, so I don’t update often. Here are some of my favorites.

•  “Build a New Route to China If They’ll Have You.” Anomaly. May 2017.
• “Notes On Teaching Creative Writing in Hong Kong” Anomaly. May 2017.
• “On Trump and Colonial Travel.” decomP Magazine. February 2017.
• “Hong Kong Domestic Workers in the Gallery.” decomP Magazine. Nov 2016.
• “The Art of Machphrasis: Stories Inspired by Video Games.” Drunken Boat. Oct 2016.
• “Art Spaces in Phnom Penh.” decomP Magazine. Oct 2016.
• “Unstable Platforms #1: Chat Room Roleplaying.” Drunken Boat. June 2016.

Bibliography

• “The Great Mediterranean Pleasure Cruise.” Crack the Spine. December 2016
• “Love Is in the Blood.” Marked by Scorn: Non-traditional relationships Solarwyrm,  2016.
• “The Bear.” LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Fiction. September 2016.
• “Brown in Singapore.” Flash: The International Short Story Magazine. January 2015.
• “Three Stories About Traveling in the Philippines With Little Understanding” Dead Ink. November 2014.
• “The Imperialist’s Salon” Open Road Review. June 2014
• “Bored.” JMWW. Winter 2014 issue, pub. January 2014.
• “The Hole.” Birkensnake 6: Wild Conformations. November 2013.
• “Scatterings of Earth.” Cliterature. June 2013.
• “Grace and Jenny Are Punk Rockers.” Scissors & Spackle. Jan 2013
• “How Prejudiced” in Litro Magazine. Jan 2013
• “Bangles and Coconuts.” You Are Here. Sept 2012
• “The Five Habits of Miserable People” in Untoward. Mar 2012
• “Initiation” in Mobius: Journal of Social Change. Feb 2012
• “The Tourist Gaze” in MiCrow. Jan 2012
• “Crazies.” Pyrta. August 2011.
• “Learning to Love.” Riverbabble. June 2011.
• “Seattle Freeze” in The Monarch Review. April 2011
• “Products.” Unlikely 2.0. March 2011.
• “Oppressed.” Houston Literary Review. January 2011.
• “L.A.S.V.E.G.A.S.” Danse Macabre. October 2010.
• “Wildcard.” Hando No Kuzushi. Sept 2010.
• “Barren.” Phantom Seed. September 2010
• “Ode to Sanctuary.” Sanctuary. September 2008. Film.