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When They Burned the Butterfly
A fierce, glamorous sapphic fantasy set in 1970s Singapore's secret societies
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Loner schoolgirl Adeline Siow has never needed more company than the flame she can summon at her fingertips…
From Concept to Cover: When They Burned the Butterfly
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Tender Is the Flesh-Eating: The Literary Cannibal as Exploitation and Desire - Reactor
Wen-yi Lee examines the teeth of fictional cannibalism
The Name Ziya - Reactor
A girl reckons with what she must lose--and who she has become--in order to be accepted at the empire's most prestigious university.
Red, Scuttle When the Ships Come Down - Uncanny Magazine
The British plucked us from our prisons and sailed us here, this jungle island in the Nanyang with their treasure striated into the bedrock.
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