The Ayam Curtain
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Kong jiao wei, in Hokkien, means "speaking bird language." It is a cock-and-bull story, a flight of fancy and, incidentally, the perfect phrase to describe this collection of microfiction with a quintessentially Singaporean flavour. The reader steps into a technological dystopia one moment and wakes up a crow in the next story, all within the space of a hundred words.
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Expect a spirit war in underground tunnels, genetically-modified babies and a Singapore overrun by anti-government spies in these short stories. Be entertained by a motley gang of characters both strange and the deranged, uber-rational and supernatural, feathered or plucked in The Ayam Curtain.
Table Of Contents
Speaking Bird Language
Tales from the Lonely Tree by Vanessa Ni Qiu Rui
By Wing and Talon by Jonathan Jie
An Urban Bestiary by Dave Chua
Ark by Joyce Chng
Jumping Ship by Lim Ming Jie
The Heart of the Rain Tree by Geraldine Choo
KY USB by Lucas Ho
Vernacular by Andrea Ang
Interview by JY Yang
Sparrows over Trees by Anders Brink
Unwanted Utopia I by Joelyn Alexandra
World-hopping on Wings by Ang Si Min
The Gilded Cage by Cherie Tan
Two Frames in Between by Geraldine Kang
They Called Me The Hyacinth Girl by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
They come from faraway places by Carrick Ang
Tiong 2040 by Yasser Suratman
Coming Home by Yasser Suratman
Singapore Rock by Cai Lixian
Speaking Bird Language by Jerrold Yam
The Ayam Curtain
The Heartland by Eleanor Neo
Battery by Gwyneth Teo
The War Going On Beneath Us by JY Yang
Garisan Kuning by Michelle Tan
Her Name Was Jane by Joses Ho
Dayuhans by Nicholas Deroose
Halcyon Days by Yuen Xiang Hao
Tuan Garuda by Ivan Kwan
The Privilege by Anders Brink
Artifact #1N-327 by Lina Salleh
Incubation by Xie Shi Min
Hidden In The Leaves by Jason Erik Lundberg
Woodwind by Clara Yeo Zhe Xuan
The Goldfish Bowl by Liana Gurung
The City by Judith Huang
Salt by Tse Hao Guang
A Better Place by Alvin Pang
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