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Fiction
Sanctuary
is available in ebook and paper formats on Amazon and Book Depository. Book review: Taipei Times |
Sanctuary
Short Fiction from Queer Asia Edited by Libay Linsangan Cantor, Ng Yi-Sheng (Signal 8 Press, 2019) Gathered in this book are nineteen tales of queer lives in Asia: stories of humour and heartbreak; magic and murder; love, lust and living happily ever after. Meet an altar boy in Davao City, a madrasah schoolgirl in Karachi, a former child soldier in Siem Reap, a mermaid in post-apocalyptic Hong Kong. Discover their passions in the saunas of Singapore, the hotel rooms of Taipei, the university dorms of Manila. Sanctuary is a celebration of the creativity and diversity of the continent’s LGBT writing, drawn from both established and emerging authors in ten different countries and territories in the region. It bears witness to oppression, but also dares to imagine strange new worlds and happy endings. Fatema Bhaiji * Ian Rosales Casocot * Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz * Gemma Dass * Nero Oleta Fulgar * Early Sol S. Gadong * Abeer Hoque * Hsu Yu-Chen * Miodrag Kojadinovic * Desmond Kon * Lydia Kwa * Ash Lim * Dino Mahoney * Danton Remoto * Arthur Lewis Thompson * Lakan Umali * Andris Wisatha * Ovidia Yu |
Opening Bifrost
(2017) is available on Amazon. |
Opening Bifrost
By Edmund Price A blogger, a priest, a dropout and a diplomat must stop Russia destroying the world and help the Devil get to Heaven. Rahul, Robert, Scotty and Laura must work together as part of a global team to ensure this first contact with dangerous aliens doesn’t destroy the planet. As they prepare to open a pathway through the heavens to an alien world, they must collect the right tools of Christian, Buddhist and Norse relics to assist them and work out how to use them. Meanwhile, the Devil knows that only a radical re-thinking of humanity’s approach to religion is going to enable the planet to survive, and allow her to get to Heaven. |
Afterness
is published by After-Party Press (2016). |
Afterness Literature from the New Transnational Asia Edited by Rebekah Chan, Gregg Schroeder, Jenn Chan Lyman, Quenntis Ashby, Amanda Webster Poetry and fiction, memoir and lyrical essay: Afterness showcases the perspectives of 65 writers whose lives are based in or touch upon Asia; all are graduates of the City University of Hong Kong Master of Fine Arts programme, started by author Xu Xi in 2010 and closed by the university after five years to the highly-publicized dismay of the international literary community. The anthology is a university-funded legacy project for the programme unveiled at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival. More on Afterness: Literature from the New Transnational Asia can be found at www.facebook.com/AfternessAnthology. |
The Queen of Statue Square is published by Critical, Culture and Communications Press (2014) and is available on Amazon, Book Depository and through other distributors.
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The Queen of Statue Square:
New Short Fiction from Hong Kong Edited and introduced by Marshall Moore and Xu Xi What does it mean to be a “Hong Kong person”? Hong Kong has never been an independent state, nor has it completely reverted to mainland Chinese control. Once a British colony, now a semi-autonomous Special Administrative Region of China, Hong Kong is something of a mystery even to itself. Although it has long had a majority of Cantonese Chinese population, the presence of significant expatriate communities – western, Indian, Filipino and others – creates a unique cultural diversity. This is evident in Hong Kong’s literary output as well: although Cantonese is by far the majority language, English writing occupies a small but enduring niche. In this collection of short stories, eight writers explore the questions of what it means to be in, from and of the Hong Kong of the past, the present and the future. |
Bitter Orange
is published by Signal 8 Press (2013) and is available at Typhoon Media, Amazon and Book Depository. |
Bitter Orange
By Marshall Moore Seth Harrington can be invisible or undetectable, but he is not a superhero. The ability only works in morally grey situations; the rest of the time, he can’t turn it on and off at will. He can use a movie ticket stub to buy a coffee or a one-dollar bill to pay for a cell phone. He can stop muggings in plain sight, unseen, but with worse violence. But this only adds to his confusion about his place in the world. Still reeling from the horrors of the September 11 terrorist attacks and ambivalent about his future, Seth is at a crossroads: can he be one of the good guys by doing bad things, or are his newfound powers part of someone else’s malevolent agenda? There are no easy answers or expected outcomes in this exploration of urban life and the ways that people can disappear. |
The Infernal Republic is published by Signal 8 Press (2012) and available at Paddyfield, Amazon and Book Depository. |
The Infernal Republic
By Marshall Moore A lonely demon in a remote corner of Hell oversees a divine but rigged typing contest. A sentient house in San Francisco decides to become vacant once again … by any means necessary. A supernatural first date in Hong Kong goes hysterically, horribly awry. How did this become my life? And … now what? These questions recur throughout “The Infernal Republic” as characters you’d either love or run from confront the unlikely and surmount the impossible. This collection of short fiction from Marshall Moore – author of The Concrete Sky, Black Shapes in a Darkened Room and An Ideal for Living – is Moore at his best: surreal, hilarious, wise, brutal and sometimes just plain wrong. |
The Memory of a Face is published by Signal 8 Press (2011) and is available in English and Chinese from Typhoon Media and Amazon. |
The Memory of a Face
By Ansh Das What is love? Is it the craving to be with him or is it the realization that you should let him go? Is it about telling him how he makes you feel or is it about suffering in silence? Is love a compromise? Can it be faked? Can love change over time? Can it last? Can it be forgotten? Diano lives in the past, hanging on to the memories of his lost love. Oliver is struggling to keep his turbulent relationship going. Andy has never loved anybody except his longtime boyfriend. Summer is waiting for her Prince Charming. Cute is looking for a boyfriend to support his education. Sky is not brave enough to stand up for his love. Thus begins their story. Set in Hong Kong and China, where the ultra-modern live in a traditional society and struggle to find love, the story shall resonate with anyone who has loved, lost somebody or had to let go. |