anxiety
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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…
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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Unpublished; written in 2024.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…
Wen Yee Ang 