conventionalised caramels. a balding woman. a balding man. your lover not so much bursting through double metal doors as careening slightly. the airport pulling on your eyebags. sick-footed triumph. you're not as young as you used to be. you waited for a long time and you thought it meant something no one told you that all…Read more morningpage.05 (tenga egg cell, pcos, azngrrls)
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morningpage.04 (chaos, lesbians, advice to the self, quotidian, feminisms)
I'm too damn cheap to burn bedsheets or bridges I take my chances with cuffed fists say they're leaving and majestic seeping train tunnels looking like I'm ragging on the genitals of people I hate it's just that the cunt colouring book reminded me of you so much and you should probably go get that checked…Read more morningpage.04 (chaos, lesbians, advice to the self, quotidian, feminisms)
morningpage.03 (boringnesses, illiteracy, predatory people, necromancy)
today I am thinking about what it is like to be a hard-up stand-up about whether people from hawaii really do speak slower because they are laid-back no one wants to be a caricature imagine me, coarse hands and a bubble butt, imagine being able to skateboard perfectly and using it as leverage or a substitute for…Read more morningpage.03 (boringnesses, illiteracy, predatory people, necromancy)
morningpage.02 (the origin of love, tate museum, retail therapy, personal conflict)
HOW TO NOT BE SEEN how not to be seen: a fucking didactic wannabe pastiche of ruination and colour. boyish haircuts and the need to grasp your wallet close to you. I am not so much falling in love with london as she is pulling me close to her as we pass under a flyblown lamp in…Read more morningpage.02 (the origin of love, tate museum, retail therapy, personal conflict)
anxiousnessless: a pastiche to anne boyer’s Not Writing
When I am trying to write about HEX ED and BAD GIRLS and SCATOLOGICAL QUEERNESS, I am not writing. I am not writing short stories about aquariums or normalising queer sex scenes. I am not writing stories that are set in Singapore but defy the conventions and mundane associations that Singaporean fiction carries. I am…Read more anxiousnessless: a pastiche to anne boyer’s Not Writing
YOU COULD TAKE A LITTLE
Written for the Lion City Slam, Oct 2014. x Marylyn Tan there was a girl who responded every time to ‘kiss me.’ with ‘where?’ on the hollow of my throat. between time and space. at the mouth of the Singapore river. to this day, area around the old Singapore River mouth remains the most expensive…Read more YOU COULD TAKE A LITTLE
FIRST DAY OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Written for A Minor Contradiction, Aug 2014. x Marylyn Tan first day of sexual orientation, I’m the oldest kid in the room, just like in church catechism class because my father forgot to enroll me the previous year. I wonder if we have a buddy system, and who is going to take me by the…Read more FIRST DAY OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION
190 DUNEARN ROAD
Written for the Lion City Slam, Oct 2014. x Marylyn Tan You have selected 190 Dunearn Road, Singapore Chinese Girls’ School as your gameplay arena. Proceed? You are carrying: A home econs kit because the school doesn't offer Design & Technology; very badly done Chinese homework & an inflated sense of superiority about your writing.…Read more 190 DUNEARN ROAD
SINGAPOREAN SHOTA
Written for the Lion City Slam, Oct 2014. x Marylyn Tan east chapter of iglesia ni christo means the entire aljunied district stretching all the way from eunos to geylang lorong 40. here, people watch you all the time. here a boy I used to know learnt the dual meanings of xiao di while walking…Read more SINGAPOREAN SHOTA
walk of indignation (aug + sep 2014)
the most IndigNant monthwith my powers of precognition and scheduling, it was foreseen that august and september would be a wild ride, and they were. I've already had my first foray into what I saw as an Official Queer Event in Singapore - the colourful and aggressively-publicised Pink Dot - in june, but nobody! bothered! to…Read more walk of indignation (aug + sep 2014)
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