"Moon Rabbit Song"
<forthcoming in Nightmare Magazine>
♦ The secret to immortality lies hidden underneath the monster's pelt, and Meifong will stop at nothing to grasp it for herself.
"My Favorite Taiwanese Folktale"
<forthcoming in Strange Horizons>
♦ Auntie Tiger is knocking on the door. What to do, what to do?
FREE-TO-READ
"War Makes Flowers"
Flash Fiction Online (Issue #129, June 2024)
♦ This world is a living nightmare. Come meet Soldier Boy and Nurse Girl. They will be so happy to see you.
FREE-TO-READ
"Thousand Petal Song"
Strange Horizons (Fiction, 2024 Special Issue on Neurodiversity)
♦ The train ticket to heaven costs one week's allowance and a half-filled bottle of broken dreams. This lonely child would pay all that and more, just to meet her goddess in the sky.
"Grocery Run"
you are what you eat: an Asian Food Zine
♦ A TRUE STORY. Written and directed by Tongyi Pudding. Starring Tongyi Pudding. "Heart-warming, earth-shattering and gorgeous"—TONGYI PUDDING. All zine proceeds donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund
FREE-TO-READ + AUDIO AVAILABLE
"RAIN FIRE CLOUD"
khōréō magazine (Vol 3, Issue 4)
♦ 麒麟暴kî-lîn-pò / heavenly steed / whirlwind flames / destroyer of evil
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"Adobo Sky"
NPQ Magazine Fall 2023 Climate Justice Edition
♦ Little Idi wants to know. What do lemons taste like? Are they sweet like flowers? Sour like rotted meat, or bitter like rusted bullets? Someone, please tell little Idi.
"Cotton Candy Cloud"
If There's Anyone Left: Volume 4
♦ No one loves the rain more than Meifong, that silly girl. She'd live in it forever if she could, standing right underneath a downpour until the droplets wear her body to the bone. Currently, she is floating somewhere between the Taiwan Air Defense Identification Zone and the West Philippine Sea.
"SURVIVE LOT 666"
Spectrum: an Autistic Horror Anthology
♦ Don't miss the long-awaited premiere featuring delicious whale carcasses and man-eating angels. But apex predators are the least of Meifong's problems when delusions of world peace threaten what little is left of her sanity.
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"where is Ligaya? (day 22)"
Strange Horizons (Poetry, Issue 2/10/23)
♦ She's out there somewhere. Will you join me in searching?
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"where is Ligaya? (day ■)"
Strange Horizons (Poetry, Issue 5/2/24)
♦ Have you seen her? Is she okay?
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"where is Ligaya? (sports day)"
Words & Sports Quarterly Vol 3, No 2
♦ She's out there somewhere, fighting for her life. Shall we cheer her on?
"summer whalesong"
NonBinary Review Issue #29: In Motion
<Reprinted edition forthcoming in Intergalactic Gaysians Anthology>
♦ It's a long way across galaxies just to reach the Weaver's Shop in heaven. But Jin has made the trip many times, with his herd of singing skywhales and a heart full of love.
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"Halloween Notes from Bloody Mary of the Philippines"
34 Orchard (Spring 2024 Issue #9)
♦ They razed her city to the ground. They turned her body inside out. The year was 1945.
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"Dear Reader"
The /tƐmz/ Review (Issue 25, Fall 2023)
♦ I hope this message finds you unwell.
"GARGOYLE, MY LOVE"
<forthcoming in XANAX HAMSTER: volume 1, issue 2: December 2024 "Legal for Distribution in Most States">
♦ This story is a work of fiction. Any similarities to real persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental. Don't worry about it.