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 neighbor’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 humor.
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.
疫情下的香港茶餐廳，一塊黃色隔板讓 Martin 與坐在對面的 Sara 看不見彼此。兩個陌生人只靠聲音、食物與每天的短暫相遇逐漸熟悉，而近在眼前的距離，也開始變得比想像中遙遠。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》。
In a Hong Kong cha chaan teng during the pandemic, a yellow partition prevents Martin and Sara from seeing one another. Connected by voices, food and brief daily encounters, two strangers grow closer across a distance of just a few inches. Selected through a member vote in Trial & Error’s scriptwriting competition, the original screenplay, Across the Booth, was adapted into The One on the Other Side in 2022.
FILE 105類型 / Genre超自然．黑色喜劇主題 / Theme家．孤獨．疏離
