“The Stare” Published in Thema (Spring 2021)

 

My short story “The Stare” was published in Thema (Spring 2021) in the US.  The story was first published in New Straits Times in Malaysia back in 1986.  That’s 35 years ago, so I guess it has a timeless quality about it.  I got the idea after visiting an old Malay cemetery and wrote about it in Story Behind the Story.  This is the fifth short story published in Thema, four from the Lovers and Strangers Revisited collection.