{"quotes":[{"text":"As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.","author":"Ken Liu","tags":["epigram-books","fiction","ken-liu","lontar","lontar-6","running-shoes","short-stories","short-story","speculative-fiction"],"id":15972,"author_id":"Ken+Liu"},{"text":"But we will not bury our mother. We have no interest in putting her bones in soft ground, no desire for memorials and platitudes, no feelings attached to the organic detritus of her terminated existence.","author":"J.Y. Yang","tags":["bnsss2","ebbnsss","epigram-books","fiction","jy-yang","short-stories","shot-story"],"id":30155,"author_id":"J.Y.+Yang"},{"text":"One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.","author":"Ng Yi-Sheng","tags":["epigram-books","fiction","lontar","lontar-5","ng-yi-sheng","prose","short-stories","short-story","speculative-fiction"],"id":31713,"author_id":"Ng+Yi-Sheng"},{"text":"I think, therefore I am. My fingers that caress these rose and frangipani petals are a result of my thoughts. I feel content, tender. I feel entranced, ecstatic and besotted by the fragrance of the flowers and this is because of my thoughts.","author":"Mohamed Latiff Mohamed","tags":["alfian-sa-at","epigram-books","fiction","grief","latiff","loss","mohamed-latiff-mohamed","mourning","novel","sg-lit","the-widower","translation"],"id":40071,"author_id":"Mohamed+Latiff+Mohamed"},{"text":"Mongkol, poor Mongkol, shedding tears.Thinking of his smiling, comical face, and his dreams of sending his son to university, I could only lower my head in silence.And the night continued, cold and dark, the wind frozen beyond the mountains.","author":"You Jin","tags":["death-by-perfume","epigram-books","jeremy-tiang","middle-east","mongkol-sheds-tears","night","sg-lit","sglit","translation","you-jin"],"id":56689,"author_id":"You+Jin"},{"text":"Rebecca woke up with her knees hurting and her fingers ice-cold, and the specifics of her life returned to her as the dream disappeared: weekend, hotel room, Baguio, memory, memory, memory.","author":"Eliza Victoria","tags":["eliza-victoria","epigram-books","fade","fiction","lontar","lontar-4","short-stories","short-story","speculative-fiction"],"id":62963,"author_id":"Eliza+Victoria"},{"text":"They will try to ascribe a purpose to my death, as though it were a punishment, but don’t you do so, in order that I continue to live in all the shadows of your longing. I will always be in your sleep and your wakefulness. I will be with you praying, propitiating and yearning for you, in sadness, in sorrow, in dismay and in the most profound happiness.","author":"Mohamed Latiff Mohamed","tags":["alfian-sa-at","epigram-books","fiction","grief","latiff","loss","mohamed-latiff-mohamed","mourning","novel","sg-lit","sglit","the-widower","translation","widower"],"id":75793,"author_id":"Mohamed+Latiff+Mohamed"},{"text":"Pak Karman hugged his wife’s gravestone tightly. “You left without saying farewell!” The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light.","author":"Mohamed Latiff Mohamed","tags":["alfian-sa-at","death","epigram-books","fiction","grief","latiff","loss","love","mohamed-latiff-mohamed","mourning","novel","sg-lit","sglit","singapore","translation"],"id":82815,"author_id":"Mohamed+Latiff+Mohamed"},{"text":"I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk.","author":"You Jin","tags":["epigram-books","fiction","in-time-out-of-place","jeremy-tiang","poland","sg-lit","sglit","short-stories","short-story","singapore","translation","you-jin"],"id":115802,"author_id":"You+Jin"},{"text":"I’d thought there’d be no winter in the desert, but winter arrived anyway—silently, suddenly.","author":"You Jin","tags":["death-by-perfume","epigram-books","jeremy-tiang","middle-east","mongkol-sheds-tears","sg-lit","sglit","translation","winter","you-jin"],"id":199327,"author_id":"You+Jin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}