December 2020 – Volume 1, Issue 1 e-ISSN: 2773-5613
FOUNDING EDITOR : Malachi Edwin Vethamani
JOINT EDITOR : Danton Remoto
COPY EDITOR : Augustine Chay
Cover photograph by Ratanjot Singh
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
POETRY
Shirley Lim, Watching “Don Giovanni” While Trump Gives His First State of the Union Address and The Fireman’s Wife
Sudeep Sen, ASPEN, LANGUAGE, and The New Pole
Leonard Jeyam, Mythopoiea
Paul Gnanaselvam, Maelstrom
Lawrence Pettener, A Passageway and Another Passageway
Ismim Putera, My father kissed my mother, My Mother Kisses My Father, and When a Man is in Love
Vernon Daim, In a Room Full of Kin and Listen
Luis Ortega, Singapore
KS Maniam, Loneliness
DRAMA
John McRae, MINIATURES: THREE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES
FICTION
Sharon Bakar, Disgraced
Shivani Sivagurunathan, Excerpts from Yalpanam
ESSAY
Marc de Faoite, A Man’s World
A SPECIAL FEATURE ON THE LATE KS MANIAM
Wong Phui Nam, Tribute to KS Maniam
Malachi Edwin Vethamani, Interview with KS Maniam
CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES