Leon Wing

Chow Kit Chronicles

1 - Becoming Ah Lan Toh (Apr-2018)
2 - Boy Man Girl and Back (Dec-2018)
3 - Orlando Rises (Jan-2019)

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  Little Big Lies
  

  • Sep-2017
  • / General Fiction
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  Malaysian author and poet Leon Wing has compiled a selection of his Twitter fiction from the past couple of years. These little snippets of 140-character fiction (or little big lies, as Leon puts it) come under such varied categories as love, blood, ...

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  They Came Stomping
  

  • Nov-2017
  • / Literary
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  It is 1941 and the Japanese have invaded Malaya. They march into the peninsula, and in particular on this afternoon, into a village, where two boys have been playing outside a hut, in which one of the children's father is getting ready...

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  Becoming Ah Lan Toh
  

  • Apr-2018
  • / Romance
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  Chow Kit Chronicles - 1
  

  In swinging 60s seedy Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur, in recently renamed South East Asian country of Malaysia, cabaret singer Ah Lan is taught a unique method by voice coach Sammi to not only make men clap but to stand up in more ways than one. Sa...

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  Mixed Signals
  

  • May-2018
  • / General Fiction
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  In this anthology, Red Riding Hood gets a makeover to a Malaysian dystopia; the death of a husband spells more than loss; a father confronts foreign invaders; a Goldilocksian home invader must eat to survive; a colleague struggles over mixed signals;...

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  Boy Man Girl and Back
  

  • Dec-2018
  • / Romance
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  Chow Kit Chronicles - 2
  

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  Orlando Rises
  

  • Jan-2019
  • / Science Fiction
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  Chow Kit Chronicles - 3
  

  A sequel to 'Becoming Ah Lan Toh', this new novel continues the ongoing story of Ah Lan. She has now completely transitioned into a full blown man. He is more than merely unusual in his gender transformation. He has managed to outlive all the charact...

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  Hung
  

  • May-2019
  • / Literary
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  Handyman, Ah Hung hasn't yet to bring home a girl. His mother decides to match make him to a woman with a goodly dowry. With no odd jobs and no money he is resigned to this solution. Having only done it one time long ago, can he get it up again for a...

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  Signs
  

  • Aug-2019
  • / General Fiction
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  A short fiction about misguided love, desires, urges, mistaken signs and signals. Tech programmer Sefen works in the same project, in the same company, as Mason. Mason gives him the attention he seeks. Mason surprises him when he invites Se...

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  Chushi
  

  • Sep-2021
  • / Contemporary Romance
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  East meets West at a New Year party. New kopitiam chef Lee Law Ree or Lawrie is introduced by his employer Mrs Wong to her nephew from San Francisco, Brody, a veritable Greek god born of a union between a Chinese father and a Greek American. The...

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  Little Book of Tuala
  

  • Feb-2023
  • / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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  Tuala looks like you and me—human, that is—but something is not right. Trapped on earth, an offspring of a union of human and fae, Tuala has gossamer wings on her back masquerading as tattoos. When she gets hangry, she turns into som...

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  Orlando Chronicles
  

  • Dec-2023
  • / General Fiction
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  It is the swinging 60s in seedy Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur, in recently renamed South East Asian country of Malaysia. Nightclub singer Ah Lan can make the whole room stand up, in more ways than one. Her musical coach Sammi is looking for love from a GI o...

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  Tuala and Other Horrors
  

  • Dec-2023
  • / General Fiction
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  Tuala looks like you and me-human, that is-but something is not right. Trapped on earth, an offspring of a union of human and fae, Tuala has gossamer wings on her back masquerading as tattoos. When she gets hangry, she turns into something other than...

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  Pictorial Little Big Lies
  

  • Jan-2024
  • / General Fiction
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  Kwailo and Other Strange Tales
  

  • / Contemporary Romance
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  In this collection of strange Malaysian stories, a man expecting to have died wakes up still living and meets the entity responsible; a neighbor more than minds a child; Red Riding Hood gets a makeover to a Malaysian dystopia; the death of a husband ...

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