Contents

Editorial – Reflections on an Online Journal

Poetry
1. Zelkova Tree by Bryan Thao Worra
2. On Giving Birth to Your Daughter by Bob Bradshaw
3. Ellipsing, Elapsing by Kavita Jindal
4. Whose Woods These Are by Eddie Tay
5. The Expat’s Partner: An Email by Alistair Noon
6. The Mourning Months by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
7. Smashing Up the Grand Piano by Martin Alexander
8. Spectral Questions of the Body by Lee Herrick
9. At Hac Sa Beach, Macau by Papa Osmubal
10. Bad English by Ouyang Yu
11. Flowers are as permanent as Brick by Reid Mitchell
12. A Veteran Talking by Louise Ho
13. A Water Planet by Steven Schroeder
14. To John Lyman and the Portrait of his Father by Gillian Sze
15. There’s Always Things to Come back to the Kitchen for by Alison Wong

Fiction
1. The Ghost in the Mirror by Robert Abel
2. Bet by YZ Chin
3. Betrayal by Sushma Joshi
4. The Killing by Nirmala Pillai

Non-fiction
1. Pusat by Anne Levesque

Photography & Art
1. Hot Cha by Nicholas Wong (poem) and Leon Lai (image)
2. Taipei by Mary Lee
3. Reproducing Nature by Franky Lau
4. Memories of Asia by Aya Padron

Contributors’ Notes