Previous experience: In 2003, SHIONA was hired by the City University of Hong Kong as their only full-time, in-house, native English Editor and Writer in the Communications (formerly Publications) Office, charged with building the University’s image, and developing and facilitating

We at Peril, an online Asian Australian journal, are seeking your submissions for our second issue. The theme is “heroes”. Feel free to challenge the theme. Maybe you’re anti-hero. Maybe you’re interested in yesterday’s heroes. Maybe your hero doesn’t exist.

To some, ‘Hero’ is a

“Dark Clouds.”

dark clouds heighten our fears
of impending storms
imprisoning our hopes
in a mirror of silences
we weave mosaic of prayers
in a broken liturgy of repentance
hoping for a heavenly salvation
from the dumps of societal excrement.

in a matchbox constructed
from

“Pissed”

Pissed
Drunk
Intoxicated
Spaka
Drong
Spak

Whatever lethal level
You wind up being
Off your head
Deliriously gay
Ridiculously outspoken
Upfront, blunt, and inconsiderably rude
conscious or unconsciously

On another level
Infectiously witty
Unashamedly