by admin | Mar 5, 2020 | Not A Chicklit
By Susialine Adilea Jamal hitched up his sarong and left the bedroom; he picked up the flashlight on the table, opened the back door, and disappeared into darkness, leaving his wife, Imah, shivering feverishly in their small, close bedroom. Whenever Imah’s illness...
by admin | Mar 5, 2020 | Not A Chicklit
By Shally Novita The trip from the Tambangan intersection to the village of Jao is a test of one’s mental strength. Not only is the distance almost thirty kilometers, but there is no choice in the style of traveling. The only way to get to the village of Jao by public...
by admin | Mar 5, 2020 | Not A Chicklit
By Ratih Kumala From a pair of lips, a fragment of memory is told. Where I live there is a woman with a pitted face. If you think life is a blessing, you won’t think so after seeing her; but if you think life is a curse, you will be confirmed in your belief. The woman...
by admin | Mar 5, 2020 | Not A Chicklit
By Nukila Amal Let’s go out to sea, my child. It’s time. I sense them coming closer. I can hear faint echoes of voices adrift in the wind. Listen, in this dawn the wind comes not softly in rustles, but hissing and slashing along the road. It is screeching through the...
by admin | Mar 5, 2020 | Not A Chicklit
By Nisrina Lubis Her tongue was stiff, powerless to help her to speak—as if the nerves there had died. They were not functioning as they should. This was worse than the very real pain she was feeling, and only Rara knew the cause. The eyes of the twenty-five-year-old...
by admin | Mar 5, 2020 | Not A Chicklit
By Mona Sylviana After he said, “Come in,” I slowly—too slowly, probably—took off my shoes to enter the room. He didn’t move, just lifted his head from the book he was reading. Before he put down the book, he inserted a matchstick which he took from the tin can...
