Fiction
Having Sex with Racist
I tell a story of my sexual encounter with an older white gay man in Brisbane, revealing the nature of racial power imbalance between a gay man referred to as ‘Asian’ and another classified as ‘white’. This story is inspired by my PhD research in which I interviewed 11 gay men from Southeast and East Asian countries about their sexual health literacy.
4th October 2024
Boom
In this flash fiction, I’m revisiting a moment in which I encountered a stranger on a train in Bradford, a city I recently moved into in 2024. This random meeting brings up a memory of my past. This story was written as a response to the prompt about ‘ghost’ from the editor of The Magpie.
11th September 2024
Why Australia?
4th August 2025
The narrator in this story is in the middle of an interview for a scholarship to study overseas. The interviewers want to know why he wants to go to Australia for further education, and he wonders what he should say to them. Purchase a physical copy of The Bournemouth Journal to read the story.
Statutory of Declaration
6th June 2025
I turned a legal statement that I submitted to claim asylum in Australia into a this short, creative non-fiction piece.
Chicken Bones
4th August 2025
Three friends, all Indonesians living in Brisbane, are spending what is possibly their last meal together before the narrator leaves Australia to move to England.