Wingsworldweb: 8 books

A collection of 140-character micro short stories, with themes ranging from love, blood, bodies, emotions, supernatural to just weird.

It is 1941 and the Japanese have invaded Malaya. They march into the peninsula, and in particular on this afternoon, into a village, where two boys have been playing outside a  hut, in which one of the children's father is getting ready to go out to look for food.

The title of this collection hints at the way the poet registers the sounds in his poems as visuals. Readers will encounter poems about sex, love, lust, death, whores, evil, cakes, tablets, cats, public speaking, haikus, gym, the tsunami in Asia, ageing, tripping, clubbing, plus a few whimsical pieces--all...

In this anthology, Red Riding Hood gets a makeover to a Malaysian dystopia; the death of a husband spells more than loss; a father confronts foreign invaders; a Goldilocksian home invader must eat to survive; a colleague struggles over mixed signals; train passengers witness an accident, while another...

A sequel to 'Becoming Ah Lan Toh', this new novel continues the ongoing story of Ah Lan. She has now completely transitioned into a full blown man. He is more than merely unusual in his gender transformation. He has managed to outlive all the characters in the last book—by more than a hundred years. He...

In swinging 60s seedy Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur, in recently renamed South East Asian country of Malaysia, cabaret singer Ah Lan is taught a unique method by voice coach Sammi to not only make men clap but to stand up in more ways than one. Sammi is looking for love, setting his sights on one...

A boy. A man. A girl. Well, sort of. The boy is of indeterminate heritage. With a name like Arjan, the archer, he looks too light skinned to be South Indian but not sufficiently white to pass for English. He knows nothing about his parents. As a baby, he was abandoned by adults who could not...

Handyman, Ah Hung hasn't yet to bring home a girl. His mother decides to match make him to a woman with a goodly dowry. With no odd jobs and no money he is resigned to this solution. Having only done it one time long ago, can he get it up again for a woman?  Or will he get sidetracked by a man with body piercings?