Best New Singaporean Short Stories Quotes

“Any moment now, I thought, he was going to wake up. Any moment.”
― O Thiam Chin, Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two

“But we will not bury our mother. We have no interest in putting her bones in soft ground, no desire for memorials and platitudes, no feelings attached to the organic detritus of her terminated existence.”
― J.Y. Yang, Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two

“Lim Oh Kee kills himself in the early hours on the 12th day of December, 1921. His last meal is rice and nothing.”
― Evan Adam Ang, Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two