“But something felt amiss. The trees were watching. It wasn’t long before she realised they were everywhere. Some were hanging from the branches while others were embedded into the trunks, glowing a dim eerie light that scattered like orbs throughout the dark.”
Written by Ng Li Wei - “I know you.” It’s night-time. A moon has risen over the dimly lit streets and several pedestrians are hurrying home, glancing fearfully up at the thundering sky.
A bell rings - a customer entering a convenience store. A boy looks left and right and behind him before he crosses the road - not to look out for cars, but to make sure no one’s following him. Soft music gently bubbles through the air from a cafe and the sound of clinking glasses along with loud, unruly cheers erupt from a nearby bar. The owner of a bookstore is sitting by the counter......
Written by Koh Ze-Wen
Arin woke to pouring rain. It sounded like someone was trying to drown the world in rain, which she respected, as a college student who had an 8am class. Still, if she didn’t get that sweet sweet 80 percent attendance, she wouldn’t even have the opportunity to flunk out of Physics.
Lost in thought, she dumped her bag on her seat and was suddenly and rudely acquainted with someone’s butt on her desk.
“Excuse me,” she said to the butt in question.
“Hey,” the owner of the butt said. He looked vaguely hungover, and he was dressed in a varsity jacket and skinny jeans. Which was interesting, because their college didn’t have sports teams with varsity jackets, which meant he had possibly acquired......
Love
Why take away the life that lies on your very hands
When all life has to offer is a mystery waiting to unravel and surprise you at every turn
Laughs that could make your stomach ache
Cries which swallows up your chest
Moments that makes the time stop
Shoulders that show you are not alone
Love is so beautiful and life is filled with it
All you have got to do is choose
Choose to see love alone in life
In the evening of a dreary November, the clouds enshrouded the heavens above with a weary gray that plagued the sunless skies and the horizon beyond. Sere leaves in shades of dull and worn amber drifted aimlessly in the chilling breeze, fallen from their trees that grew ever tired in the passing autumn, covering the ground as their ghastly graveyard. The ghostly mist shrouded the woods, smothering the trees into lifeless blurred silhouettes. I walked deep into the woods, below the shedding canopies, hearing the crunching of leaves that rested peacefully on the ground with every step I took.
My thighs simply collide
In a heap of soft sand dunes
With millions of rivers
That has it sources
From the mountains of my belly
Which folds as uneven rocks-
Do you think I'm pretty?
Image Source Written by Jessica Lau Hui Zhen There are days she glides through the halls Her soul carried on a heavy two-way street It was when the sneers…
Written by Maxine Yap Min Chien I love your eyes, your nose, your lips, your everything, I can’t choose just one. Butterflies in my belly whenever you’re near, tornados…
Image Source Written by Koh Ze-Wen this is the anomaly of thought: foreign fingers and foreign smiles are brighter, sharper, past the anonymity of a counter romance lent…
