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17. Liyana, 3 stars. Family burns down the old house so a fresh shiny new one can sprout.
18. The Terra-cotta Bride, 4 stars. Girl dies young, gets sold by a distant relative to a rich old man in hell.
19. The Four Generations of Chang E, 3 stars. The parent/child immigrant experience through multiple iterations.

Wiki: "But I was teaching Yonghua Malay pantun."

14. If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again, 3 stars. Creature tries to ascend for all the wrong reasons, eventually meets the right person to learn from.
15. The Earth Spirit’s Favorite Anecdote, 2 stars. Earth spirit impatient for permission to move in, forest spirit delays because they have a crush.
16. Monkey King, Faerie Queen, 3 stars. Mischievous monkey ends up in England, finds it terribly uncivilized.

Wiki: "But you know the rest of this story. Let us leave Sun Wukong there, hurtling towards his next adventure, intent on getting into trouble — not yet Buddha-like, never yet trapped, but dauntless, immortal, and free."

11. The Mystery of the Suet Swain, 3 stars. Blunt friend protects beautiful doormat friend from creepy men/demons.
12. Prudence and the Dragon, 3 stars. Clueless plain girl refuses to accept she's the object of affection for a glamorous dragon.
13. The Perseverance of Angela’s Past Life, 4 stars. Beautiful polished woman is haunted by her awkward teenaged self.

Word: "Well, here’s a gallimaufry!"

1. A dish made by hashing up odds and ends of food; a hodge-podge, a ragout.

2. A heterogeneous mixture, a confused jumble, a ridiculous medley.

3. A promiscuous assemblage (of persons).

4. Said somewhat contemptuously of a person: A man of many accomplishments; a composite character.

Word: "I’ve taken a scunner against the young."

1. Orig., a loathing disgust; now freq. in a milder sense: a grudge, repugnance, dislike, esp. in the phrase to take a scunner at, against, or to.

07. Balik Kampung, 3 stars. Dead woman is using her vacation time to visit her husband, but keeps getting delayed.
08. One-Day Travelcard for Fairyland, 2 stars. Moody teens attract angry fairies to school.
09. 起狮，行礼 (Rising Lion—The Lion Bows), 3 stars. Dance troupe/ghost hunters aren't comfortable removing the ghost of a child.
10. 七星鼓 (Seven Star Drum), 2 stars. How/why the ghost busting dance troupe started.

Wiki: "I’ve never seen a lion dance performance before."


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04. First National Forum on the Position of Minorities in Malaysia, 3 stars. Political conference gets sidelined when two old flames with baggage reconnect.
05. Odette, 3 stars. Maliciously sheltered woman alters her dying uncle's will to inherit his beautiful home.
06. The House of Aunts, 3 stars. Undead girl has a crush on her classmate, female relatives try to dissuade her.

Wiki: "The pontianak rolled off his back, ripping his T-shirt in the process."

01. The First Witch of Damansara, 3 stars. Woman returns home for her grandmother's funeral, gets scolded by grandma's ghost.
02. The Guest, 3 stars. Lonely young woman snatches a street cat, runs a side gig selling smell spells.
03. The Fish Bowl, 4 stars. Stressed out student trades pain for adequate academic performance.

Word: "She looked like a tart, this lady did, with her furbelows and her musk."

1. A piece of stuff pleated and puckered on a gown or petticoat; a flounce; the pleated border of a petticoat or gown. Now often in pl. as a contemptuous term for showy ornaments or trimming, esp. in a lady's dress.

Wiki: "And when the journalist had left, M. de Marelle never failed to declare in that doctrinaire tone which he used for even the most trivial remarks..."

2. One who holds some doctrine or theory which he tries to apply without sufficient regard to practical considerations; a pedantic theorist.

Word: "Irishmen on the make, Yankees, white trash, Carpetbag parvenus — My Bonnie with her Butler blood and her Robillard strain —"

1. A person of obscure origin who has attained wealth or position beyond that of his class; esp. such a one when unfitted for his position, or when making large assumptions for himself on account of his wealth; an upstart.

Wiki: "... they no more saw through Scarlett’s pinchbeck pretensions than she herself did."

1. An alloy of about five parts of copper with one of zinc, resembling gold: used in clock-making, cheap jewellery, etc.

2. Contemptuously, as a type of what is counterfeit or spurious.

3. Of deceptive appearance and small value; spurious; simulating the genuine article; sham.

Word: "... eating his cates and dainties, and delicately retiring on the stroke of ten with thanks to the Prophet."

1. Things purchased; such provisions as were not made in the house, but had to be purchased fresh when wanted, as meat, fish, etc. Hence, all provisions except the home produce of the baker and brewer; foreign viands, dainties, delicacies.

Wiki: "... to distract her lord and master, favour him with the Bee Dance, holding a hand-glass up, in which she reflected her white teeth and the faces she made."

Wiki: "For dessert, there was a sweet potato pie followed by Rhett’s bonbons, and when Rhett produced real Havana cigars for the gentlemen to enjoy over their glass of blackberry wine, everyone agreed it was indeed a Lucullan banquet."

Wiki: "He examined a mews with special care."

Wiki: "It was very similar in its invigorating powers to that of the baths at Gastein, the virtues of which are ascribed by many physicians to electricity; but though similar, the effect of the vril bath was more lasting."

Word: "Even in every household the head of it makes a regulation for its guidance, which is never resisted nor even cavilled at by those who belong to the family."

1. ‘To raise captious and frivolous objections’ (J.); to object, dispute, or find fault unfairly or without good reason. Const. at, about (formerly also against, with, on).

20. The Visions of Hildegard, 2 stars. Historical nun with visions had migraines.
21. Rebecca, 3 stars. Girl loses her grandmother, finds comfort in the stage.
22. A Walking Grove, 2 stars. Man obsessed with opera, needs music to live a meaningful life.
23. The Twins, 2 stars. Brothers communicate via numbers, get separated.
24. The Autist Artist, 2 stars. Boy with seizures is kept in the cellar, loves to draw.

Wiki: "A unique exception is provided in the case of Hildegard of Bingen (1098 to 1180), a nun and mystic of exceptional intellectual and literary powers, who experienced countless ‘visions’ from earliest childhood to the close of her life..."

15. Reminiscence, 4 stars. Musical seizures, lovely resurfaced memories.
16. Incontinent Nostalgia, 3 stars. Woman wakes from trance, remembers, forgets.
17. A Passage to India, 4 stars. Dying teenager's beautiful visions of her childhood homeland.
18. The Dog Beneath the Skin, 3 stars. Student does a lot of drugs, briefly enhances sense of smell.
19. Murder, 3 stars. Severe head injury restores memory of a killing.

10. Witty Ticcy Ray, 3 stars. Man with Tourettes forgoes medication at the weekend.
11. Cupid's Disease, 3 stars. Syphilis makes old woman feel frisky.
12. A Matter of Identity, 2 stars. Man without memory wisecracks emptily.
13. Yes, Father-Sister, 2 stars. Woman is amused by the meaninglessness of everything.
14. The Possessed, 2 stars. Extreme Tourettes turns people into a mimicking husk?

Wiki: "I see your face, your beard, I think of an archimandrite priest."

05. Hands, 3 stars. Elderly woman never learned to use her hands, becomes gifted artist.
06. Phantoms, 2 stars. Phantom limbs are good, but they hurt.
07. On the Level, 3 stars. Lopsided man prototypes glasses to help him stop tilting.
08. Eyes Right!, 3 stars. Lady with left neglect spins her wheelchair to eat.
09. The President's Speech, 2 stars. People with language disorders can tell Reagan is full of shit.

Word: "On the fifth or sixth slap the phantom suddenly shoots forth, rekindled, fulgurated, by the peripheral stimulus."

1. intr. To emit vivid flashes like lightning.

Hence ˈfulgurating ppl. a.; also transf. (of pains) darting like lightning through the body.