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This Mortal Coil
QLRS Vol. 24 No. 3 Jul 2025

Contents

Editorial
Just a detail friends would see.

Poetry

cor ad cor loquitur
by Ow Yeong Wai Kit

Plantains
by Yu Jia Cheong

State Of Deformity
by B.B.P. Hosmillo

Talking to You
by Belle Koh

Little Red Riding Hood
by Gilbert Koh

Love Poem: Golden Retriever
by Kiko Caramat

The Ghost
by James Fleet Underwood

celup/tulis
by Leia Devadason

Short Stories

We Are Hiring
by Vanessa Chng

Project for a Revolution in Bangkok
by Alfie Lee

Salaam Aleikum
by Emil Rem

Forever Baby
by Lily C. Fen

Essays

Very Short. Too Short. Just Short Enough.
Tan Cheng Hung on flash fiction.

Criticism

The In Between
Dylan Kwok reviews Samantha Harvey.

Amplifying the voices of Asian worker-writers
Angus Whitehead reviews Asian Workers Stories.

History, or this much we know
Crispin Rodrigues reviews Chim Sher Ting.

Between Past and Future
Jasmine Goh reviews Theophilus Kwek.

A Freudian fable for our times
Christine Chia reviews Amanda Lee Koe.

A Poetics of Endurance: Wartime Poems from Gaza
Kristina Tom reviews Mosab Abu Toha.

The ‘Eking’ of Meaning: Reading Within and Between Warped Lines
Jonathan Chan reviews Wahidah Tambee.

Interviews

Kai Chai x Melizarani talk about things: An exercise in a Proust Questionnaire with Melizarani T Selva

QLRS Vol. 24 No. 3 Jul 2025

EDITED BY
Chief/Poetry: Toh Hsien Min
Short Stories: Yeow Kai Chai
Essays: Stephanie Ye
Criticism: Yong Shu Hoong
Interviews: Yeow Kai Chai and Yong Shu Hoong
Technical (non-editorial): Alvin Pang

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