Writer's name: Janet Tay
Title of work: Winter
Genre: short story
Name of magazine/journal: Short Story America
Issue: 18 June 2010
Author's bio: Janet Tay practised as a litigation lawyer for over five years before leaving it for her first love—books and writing. She is now a book editor at a Malaysian publishing house based in Kuala Lumpur. She is also working towards a Masters degree in English Literature at Universiti Malaya. Her short story, ‘Callus,’ was highly commended in the 2004 Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story competition and has also been adapted for the Oxford Bookworms World Stories collection published in 2008. Her short stories have also appeared in Off The Edge, a Malaysian arts and culture magazine and New Writing Dundee 4. She is a also a contributing editor for Quill, a Malaysian magazine on books and the literary world, and has published articles in The Star, a Malaysian newspaper, BestFoodJunction.com, a Malaysian food and travel magazine and The Criterion, a peer-reviewed online academic journal. She is also the co-editor of Urban Odysseys: KL Stories (MPH Publishing, 2009). She is currently working on a short-story collection.
Excerpt:
"When she told Huang, there had been an uproar for exactly two days—which was the time she took to pack her things and arrange for the necessary items to bring along with her for Meiyue. She ignored his rampage, even when he tried to unpack her bags in a bid to stop her departure. She’d left instructions for the maid to cook his meals and to remind him to take his medication at the required times. She tried to forget the look on his face, the despair and disappointment that she seldom saw because he was good at using anger to hide his pain. But when she left, his expression was one of fatigue and wide-eyed hurt, at her betrayal. As if he had never expected that day to come, when she would leave him alone to stew in his own misery."
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Title of work: Winter
Genre: short story
Name of magazine/journal: Short Story America
Issue: 18 June 2010
Author's bio: Janet Tay practised as a litigation lawyer for over five years before leaving it for her first love—books and writing. She is now a book editor at a Malaysian publishing house based in Kuala Lumpur. She is also working towards a Masters degree in English Literature at Universiti Malaya. Her short story, ‘Callus,’ was highly commended in the 2004 Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story competition and has also been adapted for the Oxford Bookworms World Stories collection published in 2008. Her short stories have also appeared in Off The Edge, a Malaysian arts and culture magazine and New Writing Dundee 4. She is a also a contributing editor for Quill, a Malaysian magazine on books and the literary world, and has published articles in The Star, a Malaysian newspaper, BestFoodJunction.com, a Malaysian food and travel magazine and The Criterion, a peer-reviewed online academic journal. She is also the co-editor of Urban Odysseys: KL Stories (MPH Publishing, 2009). She is currently working on a short-story collection.
Excerpt:
"When she told Huang, there had been an uproar for exactly two days—which was the time she took to pack her things and arrange for the necessary items to bring along with her for Meiyue. She ignored his rampage, even when he tried to unpack her bags in a bid to stop her departure. She’d left instructions for the maid to cook his meals and to remind him to take his medication at the required times. She tried to forget the look on his face, the despair and disappointment that she seldom saw because he was good at using anger to hide his pain. But when she left, his expression was one of fatigue and wide-eyed hurt, at her betrayal. As if he had never expected that day to come, when she would leave him alone to stew in his own misery."
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