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Issue 14: GOLD
Cover image: “Dart Reflection” by Shaun Dérioz
Read Issue Fourteen online here.
Get the PDF version here.
Notes on Gold
“Ultimatum” by Matt Ricardo
cross came, crown came
and still
we were sunbitten
at the throat.
girlgold, godspit
deathproof little shine.
my mother kept bars
in the fear-drawer,
a bright thing
hunger might accept
instead...
Fourth Grade Feral
“The Chase” by Zed
My restless hands still miss the feel of metal spikes shaped like
molecules, scooping them up like the queen of jacks. That was
the year our teacher died.
We’d left a small world stacked on her gray slab desk. Lin...
You Must Be This Tall to Ride This Ride
“The Lotus” by Jennie Park
He had been waiting in line for two hours now and there didn’t seem to be any end in sight. He dug his number from his pocket. 722-55. Lucky number.
His feet hurt–throbbed, in fact. But he ignored them. He’d bec...
Can't You Teach Her Some Math?
“Patis / Distroded” by bimpoman
“Let me grab this,” Miyun said, getting up from the dinner table and taking her ringing phone to the couch. “Lottie, sweetie, why don’t you hang out with Daddy for a while? Mommy needs to take a call.”
“Dad...
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The Hong Kong Writers Circle is a member organisation for writers of all levels and of all genres.
Photographer, poet, writer. Je me décline sous toutes formes d’art (or most). Antilliean créole sat on the strand of the west coast of Ireland, busy extracting memory from each grain of sand.
Stewart. Hong Kong. Writer.
I’m a NYC born poet living in San Diego with a long stopover in Austin, TX. Being surprised by a poem is one of my favorite feelings. Visit this site if you want my bio and more poems. https://sites.google.com/view/tina-posner/home
Writer located in the Pacific Northwest \ud83c\udf32
Henrik Hoeg is a Danish poet living in Hong Kong. He is the organizer and main MC of Peel Street Poetry. He has published 3 books, latest being Birth is the Coward's Way In, a collection of poems and short stories.
Maryam is an engineering student who's consumed stories in every form - novels, films, and television alike. Writing stood out as the most beautiful, perhaps because of how accessible it was: a way to create entire worlds from nothing but words
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Zoe Dulay-Peña is a Filipino writer based in Hong Kong. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vogue and more. She was most recently longlisted for the 2025 Short Story Hope Prize. Find her at @zoemeaninglife on Threads.
Jay returned to Melbourne/Naarm, Australia, in 2020 after two decades teaching in Asia and United States. She now focuses on writing. A lover of nature and all the arts.
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