Wok Hei St
Through the window, a small patch of black, polluted brighter by shopping mall lights. It was about all that I could see of hope.
An interrogation. A theft. A shopping center. A magic user. A hired grunt. A wok that could be magical.
Read if you like: Movies where it’s largely two people talking but each of them is thinking ‘do they that I know that they know’; humid weather with blasts of air conditioning; Malaysian take-out.
- Featured in Levar Burton Reads, Jan 2023. Still pinching myself about this one.
- Review by Charles Payseur in Locus, Dec 2022: “It’s a romp of a story, energetic and fun, with some wonderful character work in Compass and a plot that comes together with style and pomp.”
Published in Strange Horizons as part of their Southeast Asia Special Issue, August 2022. (Edited by Jaymee Goh. Thanks to all the backers that make special issues like this one possible.)