Hazia’s Reflections

News From Home by Chua Kok Yee, Shih-Li Kow & Rumaizah Abu Bakar

A tricky venture, this. Not a typical collection of short stories by a single author, nor a full anthology by a spectrum of different writers. No, here we have three distinct voices, ten tales a piece.

Here we find stories that writhe and twist with malignancy and an appetite for vengeance, stories that trip the light surrealistic, stories tender and wounded, stories of lovelovelove (but carefully unsentimental). This is like a three-course meal, with different flavours and meats and spices; three chefs vying to satisfy you the Reader. O but how well do these suppings come together!

A few highlights: A madman meets his match in a ever-patient, ever-tolerant asylum guard in Merdeka. Quiet wisdom and karma in Peach Blossom Luck. But it was the Singles’ Honeymoon that caught the romantic in me. Taste this, the tales are fine…

~http://kennymah.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/seasons-readings/~

Finally… a total stranger who appreciates my 1st corner story on the green-eyed man:)