For the past sixteen years, I have mostly been producing plays until 2015 when I began writing prose for submissions.
Here’s a list of my past work:
2023
Waking Up in Koh Phangan
A poem submitted to the Men Matters Online Journal December 2023 Issue
Remembering what it’s like to wake up in Koh Phangan on holiday the morning after a beach party. Sometimes it’s these vignettes packed full of sensorial imagery that remain with us long after the mundane details of the core memory is gone.
Mixtape for Maz
Mixtape For Maz, a play written in English and Northern Malay, tells the story of Maz and Edi, teenage siblings who have returned to rural North Malaysia in the late nineties after years of growing up abroad. Not only do they face the stresses of secondary school life, they must also navigate the contradictions between their western influences (early Internet culture, nineties music and video games) and the conservative society engulfing them. As their identities are challenged and redefined, will they learn to reconcile the shattered fragments of themselves or will they succumb to the temptations of conformity?
2022
5 Unbeatable Steps to Beating Grief
After the death of one of their close friends, a group of queer friends must learn to manage their collective complicated grief while battling the elements as they find themselves trapped in a crumbling apartment during one of the worst storms of the century in Kuala Lumpur. Will they escape unscathed or will their friendship be changed forever?
Showcased as part of the 100 Day Project Playwriting Lab and Mentorship by Cocoon Creative Lab, this work in progress was read via Zoom to a selected group of audiences and is still being developed with the hopes of being staged one day.
2018
‘The Magician Who Played with the Crab’ in Not So Stories
This work was part of the anthology, Not So Stories published by Abaddon Books in 2018 which tries to redress the stories in Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. My contribution in particular was a re-visioning of the sequence of events in one of Kipling’s stories that was set in Malaya in a time long ago that borrowed liberally from local cultures and beliefs with little respect to the source.
2015
‘The Twins’ in Cyberpunk: Malaysia
In this Fixi Novo anthology, I experimented with Nusantara cli-fi, which fits pretty well into the cyberpunk genre. I stayed true to the core theme of high technology and low quality of life in this story about twins that have to escape the clutches of cybernetically enhanced centenarian poachers and cyborg familiars in a future Kuala Lumpur transformed forever by decades of climate devastation.
Before 2015
