Missed Connections: Microfiction From Asia

Missed Connections is a buffet of contemporary microfiction — literary and graphic — from across Asia. The book delivers fiction in small, delectable and entirely substantial bites, because whether we like it or not, the average contemporary reader has limited time and a diminished attention span due to the immense sprawl of content at her fingertips and the nature of everyday life itself.

• The book is diverse in terms of its writers and the themes tackled by the various stories
• The microfiction pack a typhoon of emotion despite their tiny size — as conceived by Asians for anyone who might want to read them
• Reading microfiction is addictive. You read one and you want to read another and yet another. It is difficult to stop.
• The book is also a handbook for creating fiction, and these pieces will inspire readers to try their hand at the form themselves. The word count that accompanies every story is an additional motivator to the reader. Can I tell a story in the same number of words… or even less.

Felix Cheong is the author of 17 books across genres, from poetry to fiction, from children’s picture books to non-fiction. His works have been widely anthologised and nominated for the prestigious Frank O’Connor Award and the Singapore Literature Prize. Conferred the Young Artist Award in 2000 by the National Arts Council, he holds a master’s in creative writing and is currently an adjunct lecturer with the National University of Singapore, Murdoch University, University of Newcastle and Curtin University.

Noelle Q. de Jesus is the author of two short fiction collections: Cursed and Other Stories (2019) and Blood Collected Stories (2015), which won the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Award for the Short Story and which has a French edition. She pioneered and edited the Fast Food Fiction flash series (2003, 2015). She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green University in Ohio, and her work has appeared in fine literary journals and anthologies, local and international. Singapore has been her home since 2000.

• Dimensions: 216 mm x 135 mm