short-story

  • 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.

  • Tarnish

    Tarnish

    Won Highly Commended in the Monash Short Story Writing Competition (2022). She wonders why he killed himself. A rich kid like that, he probably didn’t even do his own taxes. His face haunts her as she drives to the school. It dogs her steps as she shakes hands with the PA president. His eyes stare…