Celebrating literary goods created by Indonesian youth. Delivered from our students, staff and guest contributors; are a diverse panoply of poetry, comics, fiction, essays and anecdotes in Indonesian and foreign tongues.
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Waiting (For)Ever
Based on the song Cupid by FIFTY-FIFTY, Nafiisah composes a fiction piece on the painful promises of romance by amatonormative society. What would happen if we let go of love in a life that expects it?
I Wonder
Every so often they would walk out of the unclosed door of their booth, which opened directly to their comfortably-, yet palely-lit pantry, the ceiling lights casting a vanilla hue refracted on the marble table top, framing their faces in a soft halo. Time would slip past their awareness, sometimes.
The Snowman’s Magic Hat
I didn’t know how to react at the moment. This year had not been so kind to both of us, especially my little sister. It was her first winter with only one leg.
The Last Dance Pergola
Some people said that he danced tearfully in the light of the silver moon on the fifteenth day of the third month, and this odd combination opened up a secret world.
Broken Unbroken
They all harmonize, this chant of promises and these strains of sounds of oppression, merging into a song of distress and agony that lulls and dulls me as I find myself slipping away — slipping, slipping, slipping… and finally, I am free.