Category: Writing
Anne Baldo’s ‘This is Your Sign to Leave Him’: A Review
I just read Anne Baldo’s ‘This is Your Sign to Leave Him’, which was an honourable mention in the MRB Fiction Contest. The story is ...
‘We, the Divine’. Disclosure was never so sweet.
I think there’s a movie coming out called Disclosure Days about aliens. Well, I wrote about that long ago and just had a piece published ...
Writing is in the Moving: It’s Hard to Know a Place by Car
It’s hard to know a place by car. When I travel, I walk a lot, and when possible, I bike. Singapore is tiny. It’s a ...
The Doge of Flatbush – published in Peatsmoke
The Doge of Flatbush was just published by Peatsmoke, for which I am eternally glad. I do set out to write dense fiction at times, ...
The Distance and the Damage – Published by DarkWinter Literary Magazine and Press
New fiction published by DarkWinter Literary Magazine, a story called ‘The Distance and the Damage’. It’s a short one. It’s a tough one. In 2023, ...
The Best Songs of 2025
What are the best songs of 2025? I mean, subjectively so, of course. I had to pick something, so I picked these. A good year ...
“You Like?” by Kailash Srinivasan, published by Ex-Puritan: a reflection
I never know what’s going on in the heads of other people, and I often don’t ask: “how do you feel?”, so I plug in ...
“Snake-Proof”: published in The New Quarterly
A story called “Snake-Proof” was published in Issue 176 of The New Quarterly (TNQ). TNQ is my local Waterloo-based literary magazine. It is a beautiful ...
I Do Whimsy – FreeFall
I just got my hardcopies of Volume 35 Number 2 of FreeFall (Fall 2025). I have two stories in this. ‘Still Me, Still You’, which ...
Baseball is the One Game that Can Make You Cry
Baseball is the one game that can make you cry. Sports are a funny tradition of on-the-fly stories built up during a game or a ...