Missed Connections - by Felix Cheong & Noelle Q de Jesus (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

How we worship the god of short things: News in brief, SMSs, 30-second TikTok videos. Here, in this ground-breaking collection of flash fiction and comics from Asia, you'll find stories crushed between your palms, squeezed into a micro-narrative that's tight and sweet. Brevity is not a sin, but storytelling in its most elemental form, to suggest, tease and worm its way into your imagination.

About the Author

Felix Cheong is the author of 29 books across different genres, from poetry to fiction, from children's picture books to graphic novels. He has also written two opera librettos and 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, Felix has been invited to writers festivals all over the world, such as Edinburgh, Austin, Sydney and Christchurch. He holds a masters in creative writing and is currently a university adjunct lecturer. 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.