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Singapore

A close-up of the top of an Erhu, a Chinese two-sting musical instrument, carved as a dragon head.

Photo by Andrew Kuo

Erhu

The alley starts to stretch / on the first bow stroke

Translated from Chinese by Christina Ng

An International Menagerie: Animal Stories

By Susan Harris

Some of the animals here possess the power of speech, deploying it to often subversive ends.

In Those Days and These: Multilingual Singapore

By Dan Feng Tan

These pieces paint a picture of a Singapore that has ceased to be.

There Was a Bridge in Tekka

The bridge is gone. The river is gone.

Translated from Tamil by Yamuna Rajoo & Dan Feng Tan

From “Opera Costume”

By Yeng Pway Ngon

If this had been Hong Kong, surely he’d have become a movie star!

Translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang

Hey, Wake Up!

We are not a run-of-the-mill company. We do not engage in run-of-the-mill business.

Translated from Chinese by Dan Feng Tan

The Withered Cherry Tree

By Sa’eda Buang

Today, she was the richest girl in the world.

Translated from Malay by Miranti Silasudjana, Nur Izzati Jasni & Nurul Hannah

Black Panther

By Wong Koi Tet

One thought occupied his mind all this time: that he might not have a son to perform his last rites.

Translated from Chinese by Hong Xinyi, Lee Chee Keng & Tina Sim

Malay Literature in the Wave of Singapore’s Cosmopolitanism

By Masuri S. N.

The art of poetry is closely linked to finding solace in the midst of the noise of a city.

Translated from Malay by Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib

The Visitor

All of us / wait / to receive you.

Translated from Tamil by Kavitha Karuum

Reader

I strike out, rewrite.

Translated from Tamil by Sulosana Karthigasu