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Issue 9: ROOTS
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Hong Kong Writers Circle
Garden Maintenance: A User's Guide
On my eighth birthday, my father decided to grow cherry tomatoes in our backyard.
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Dane Llewelyn King
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Square Root Day
Pandora dropped into her usual seat between Nishal and Fan, five minutes late.
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Simon Berry
Once We Were Wolves
I gaze up at Lele, sitting like a queen in her doggie stroller.
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Marina Pacheco
Re-patching
A reimagination of Yesi's poem "重畫地圖"
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Daphne
Twopig
On October 28th, the Twopig Municipal Council sentenced Gordon Greene’s oak tree to death.
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Sarah Chin

May 2025

March 2025

Our theme for Issue #9: ROOTS
Submissions open April 1-30, 2025
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Hong Kong Writers Circle
Issue 8: CHARACTER
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Hong Kong Writers Circle
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Paradise Revisited
In the end it was the lack of Marmite that drove Bob Drummond away.
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Julian Lyden
At the Memorial Garden
Father, my dear familiar stranger, I wish I could know you better.
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Sonia Leung
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The Death of Eileen Chang
September 9, 1995:
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Jessica Morris
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