Lee Jia-An is a short story writer and painter from Malaysia. She is currently working on another short story collection and her paintings can be found on jiaan.tumblr.com.
In Bites of the Southeast, a fortune-teller finds herself unable to read the destiny of a flooded village through the patterns of her starfruit seeds while two best friends discover the unspeakable consequences of stealing a little pocket knife from a recurring nightmare.
