A popular assumption about fairytales is that they should always have happy endings, but a glimpse into the history of… Read more Editorial: Issue One of Truancy, April 2015

  The Artist in her Studio Karen Nunis is a multi-talented artist whose works are imbued with a purity of… Read more “It is Important to be Polite”: The Subtle Artistry of Karen Nunis

In  ‘Cracking the Sundal Tree Code,’*, I stated that the Sundal Harum Malam from Malay folklore was without doubt the Chempaka tree… Read more “The Pala Tree and The Sundal Tree” by Tutu Dutta

Hear and Listen! O, most gracious and exalted sovereign, honored visitors from lands afar, ennobled company all. Hear and listen,… Read more “The Piscine Gifts” by Stace Dumoski

The bride-to-be of Gamilah, twelfth prince of that name, lord of the richest province in all of the country of… Read more “The Devouring Night” by Mary Anne Mohanraj

There was a woman who went mad. A girl is considered lucky here in Mukalla for two things. Firstly, when… Read more “Cold Eyes” by Shada Bokir

I growled. In the once-coastal city of Temasek, in the world of the living and the dead, lived the families… Read more “I Growled” by Joyce Chng