Start here if this is your first visit. A selection of fiction, essays, criticism and screenplays offers different ways into the collection, following stories and observations drawn from everyday life.
A man stands outside a familiar front door, waiting for an answer that never comes. The details match his memories, but a neighbour’s reaction makes him question what it means to come home.
A man stands outside a familiar front door, waiting for an answer that never comes. The details match his memories, but a neighbour’s reaction makes him question what it means to come home. Set in a Hong Kong residential corridor, this flash fiction explores belonging and loneliness with a touch of dark humour.
A veteran editor is exacting about words and merciless about his colleagues’ mistakes. Details and dialogue from publishing work explore professional pride and how a person holds on to the last word.
Picking up The Blue-Blooded Man in the adult library as a child opened a world of strange encounters and visitors from space. Ni Kuang's death brings back summers spent with Wisely, and the stories that first made writing feel possible.
Cheers at the Tokyo Olympics bring back a question about Hong Kong’s champions first raised twelve years earlier. Watching local athletes reach the world stage comes with a wish for more young people to receive the same opportunity.
疫情下的茶餐廳,Martin 與 Sara 隔着一塊隔板,靠聲音及日常相遇逐漸熟悉。原劇本《卡位對面》經試當真會員投票獲選,於 2022 年改編成短片《對面那位》。
Martin and Sara grow closer across a cha chaan teng partition during the pandemic. The original screenplay was selected by Trial & Error members and adapted into this short film in 2022.