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Featured Collections
Queer Asian-American Literature
Stories capturing the queer Asian-American experience--a genre invested in the intersection of two inherently destabilizing identities.
Utopia
Would you want to live in this society?
Food for Film
A collection of short stories with potential to be adapted into screenplays, with notes below.
Linguistics + Sci-Fi
In my Fall 2023 semester, I was part of a small directed reading class I loved. The theme was linguistics and science fiction. Here are some of the stories we read, as well as others that relate to the theme.
Horror Stories With Shocking Plot Twists
For lovers of the scary and weird, here is a list of horror stories with plot twist that will have you scouring the entire story again for signs of this shocking ending.
Family Ties, or Complexities of Asian-American Lineage
Bowls of cut fruit, broken mother tongues, Chinatowns here and there: on learning how difficult it is to love.