O nce there was a squid who fell in love with the sun. He’d been a strange squid ever since he was born — one of his eyes pointed off in an…
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Short Story: Life is a Coffee Bean
S he has been coming here every single day for as long as I can remember. Each time we would get excited at the prospect of getting our turn to please her. “Sumatra, please,” she would say once…
Short Story: Memories
M y father’s first love had been a woman who carried the ocean inside her. He had told us many tales of how she sang to the sea and held hands with…
Short Story: The Party
T he military is rounding people up,” my boss said, sipping his coffee in the house’s small but sunny kitchen. No cream, two sugars. If you were what you drank, then the…
Short Story: The helper’s man
T he nagging would come later. At the moment, the scene involves a setting sun, descending toward its place of retreat at the bottom of the sea. The waves rush to arrive…
Short Story: Sea foam
E veryone in school knew exactly how I had developed an infatuation toward Daffa Fadhila by the time I started the ninth grade. I would get drunk on his laugh whenever it…
Short Story: What’s on Sunday?
I t was not yet 10:30 a.m., but more than 300 churchgoers from neighboring parishes had already gathered at St. Vincent’s. The pews were filled all the way through to the last…
Short Story: Sealed with a Kiss by AK Rini
SINOPSIS: Uta menikmati matahari di Hyde Park, London, mengenang Jakarta yang panas. Dia melihat anak-anak bermain dengan anjing mereka dan merenungkan keputusannya meninggalkan Jakarta demi impian di London. Uta menerima undangan pernikahan…
Short Story: Samskara by Shoba Dewey Chugani
She sat at the bar, in the same seat Dan had sat every single evening, his favorite crystal glass empty in her hand, her head reeling. She didn’t care for alcohol the…
Short Story: A Pipe Dream by Latifa Sekarini
I had never thought of coming back to this city and finding out that everything was the same and everything was different at the same time, like your mother had walked into…