Wen Yee Ang

All Work

  • Mirror

    Mirror

    Published in At What Cost: an anthology. I only see her through cold, glimmering windows. I’m always watching, always mirroring, always there. It’s something instinctual for me. Something primal.

  • Panic

    Panic

    Won Second Place (Category C) in the Monash Short Story Writing Competition (2023). The scent of musk and old sweat wafts off the stained seats. My shoes stick to the rattling vinyl floor as if they are coated in glue. My foot taps; up, down, up, down. I feel an elastic resistance as my heel…

  • Rokok

    Rokok

    Published in Antithesis Volume 32: Tender (2022). Smoke curls languidly through the corners of his mouth. I follow its smell around the cracked cement wall, grass crunching beneath my slippers.

  • strange little boy

    strange little boy

    Published in Farrago 2020 Edition One. they call you Strange, little boy. in legoland you broke down like our little tin car kicking crying words failing so: they had to pull us out. tell me why?

  • Dis-ordered

    Dis-ordered

    Unpublished; written in 2024. It doesn’t happen with a bang. Not like the movies. I’m not stabbed, or attacked, or am otherwise the victim of some traumatic event. It happens like this: Nausea in my throat; I choke. My stomach is twisted up and wrung dry, like a filthy rag. The tin walls of the…