A.K. LEE

When the hearse arrives, we're told to kneel with our backs to it and to keep our heads down and our eyes closed. The scent of incense...

The bottom eight inches of my black dress swish when I walk, and twirl when I turn. It's of a different material than the rest of the...

When planning for a vacation, I like to choose three to four must-see locations or must-do activities, and then wing it for the rest....

My partner and I firmly believe that we are cursed. Not in the “let’s find an exorcist” way, just mundane commonplace curses that inconvenience us.

In 2024, I translated three children's books. These stories were about landmarks in Singapore's past that are no longer around today. I translated them from English to Chinese, and while it wasn't my first experience translating per se, it was still a learning experience.

a sunbird on a twig A pair of sunbirds visit my balcony regularly, especially during nesting season. They peel the papery dried layers...

a little six-year-old boy came up to me today, holding a plastic bag full of cold beverages, and asked me if i could help him open the...

I am announcing that after the November newsletter, Story+Story will take a hiatus until March as I wish to work on my existing short...

I had the pleasure of conducting my very first public workshop at the end of August, invited by the people of Let's Read @SG. This came...

July has been a heck of a roller-coaster. There were some high points: I moderated a Q&A with the leaders of Centre for Stories from...

"No crisis in a people's history leaves the previous equilibrium undisturbed." This is how Léon Blum introduced this book. In his cold...

It's official: I will stop my daily journaling/creative writing experiment. Since 30 Dec 2021, I wrote a one-page response to prompts...

Here are the prompts for March:

This is the first chapter of Fragile Vessel, also available in my first issue of Story+Story newsletter. I will post subsequent chapters...

I've posted my journal responses for the first week of January and I have already found it to be very useful in getting my brain to kick...

What is in your mind when you are alone in the dark? Confession time: I am a horror weenie. I don't watch horror movies, I nearly always...

This is the first in a planned series where I examine the first few lines of a novel I enjoyed. ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a...

For the most part, I don't process auditory input very well. It's a matter of attention and retention: I can't listen to one single thing...

Fuel, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea. The seven essentials of a Chinese household - and salt is the first condiment listed....

(initially published in May) Congratulations! You have chosen to incorporate a Mother™ in your latest piece of fiction. This is indeed a...