Celebrating literary goods created by Indonesian youth. Delivered from our students, staff and guest contributors; are a diverse panoply of poetry, comics, fiction, essays and anecdotes in Indonesian and foreign tongues.
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Waiting (For)Ever
Based on the song Cupid by FIFTY-FIFTY, Nafiisah composes a fiction piece on the painful promises of romance by amatonormative society. What would happen if we let go of love in a life that expects it?
A Witness
My attention was caught by the sudden silence I heard after a few laughs and a shut door. A young boy just stood there as if… he was waiting. He gripped on to the sleeves of his t-shirt, tightly holding onto his body for warmth. What could he be doing on a night as cold as this without a jacket?
I Wonder
Every so often they would walk out of the unclosed door of their booth, which opened directly to their comfortably-, yet palely-lit pantry, the ceiling lights casting a vanilla hue refracted on the marble table top, framing their faces in a soft halo. Time would slip past their awareness, sometimes.
The Last Dance Pergola
Some people said that he danced tearfully in the light of the silver moon on the fifteenth day of the third month, and this odd combination opened up a secret world.
Broken Unbroken
They all harmonize, this chant of promises and these strains of sounds of oppression, merging into a song of distress and agony that lulls and dulls me as I find myself slipping away — slipping, slipping, slipping… and finally, I am free.