A.K. LEE

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...

#bookreview #grimreader #death #dying I have reviewed one essay from this collection, but it occurred to me a few days after I'd posted...

If you've been following my blog, you may have noticed in the few interviews that I've conducted that I always ask about my interviewees'...

"Who am I?" I ask the world. The wind rustles through leaves and grass. I am listening. Hazy afternoon. Common mynas curving through the...