Plane rides were a rare commodity for Consuelo. An old woman of sixties, she remembers her last being a domestic flight more than five years ago. The weather then was sunny and the sky clear blue, she nonchalantly managed the ninety-minute flight. However, in a...
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I’m with Len, Lin’s uncle who specializes in village property. He’s lead us deep into Sha Tin along a narrow footpath to Ha Wo Che village, which lines the train tracks and takes you back in time to days of a bygone era. Much...
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Blue eyes I’m walking along the chaotic road after my visit to a temple, feeling as if I’ve really played a part in Thai culture. So many Westerners in Bangkok, they only come here for – you know. You walk down the right street and...
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The bus turned noisily round a bend in the road and rattled along a canal that fed the farms, the hamlet and the livestock. I felt myself odd among the village folk. The men smoked beedis and the women kept up an endless chatter....
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The cover of Mr. Cheng’s Silver Coffeepot was created by Fena Lee, a Singaporean artist. The back cover illustration is the work of Alan Van Every, a Bangkok-based artist from New York.
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Mr. Cheng’s Silver Coffeepot is New Asian Writing’s second anthology of short stories that comprises the fictional work of forty-five writers from around the world who set their stories in a distinctive Asian context. The title page of each story is illustrated with the...
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Mr. Cheng’s Silver Coffeepot is New Asian Writing’s soon-to-be-publihsed anthology of short stories that comprises the fictional work of forty-five writers from around the world who set their stories in a distinctive Asian context. And here’s the lineup: Stories set in Thailand ‘Mr. Cheng’s Silver Coffeepot’...
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The second edition of The Rage of a New Ancestor. 2010 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology has a new cover design by Singaporean artist Fena Lee and a few minor layout changes. Most of these short stories are littered with vocabulary from the local...
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Short story selected for the 2011 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology The train rolls out of Mandalay at four in the morning, lit only by the orange glow of cigarettes being smoked in the seats around us. It is an old wooden relic that...
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Short story selected for the 2011 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology He noticed he could look at people and form a story about each of them, without ever really having a clue what or who they were.  He started doing it as a teenager...
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