Asian Short Stories

Mao Chan lacked confidence as she didn’t fall in line with the standard beauty standards for Chinese women. She was a bigger curvier woman, and her father constantly reminded her that no Chinese man would want to marry a woman with her physical traits. Upset, Mao felt undesirable, so she decided to take a nude photo of herself, and post it online in an attempt to see if any man finds her attractive. To her surprise, she gets dozens of suitors all wanting to be with her, and they are all black men! Having never slept with a black man before, Mao is nervous, but upon her first hookup, ...

Her name is Tamika and her story is like broken glass. Shards of glass can easily penetrate skin and tissue. Sex, lust, love, and hatred...a small town in Japan holds these secrets. An inspector, a mother, a father, a client, and a body that fell from nowhere...Sometimes there is no logic to life. Nine stories - or one tale?

An ex-boxer turned nail salon worker falls for a pair of immaculate hands, a mother and daughter harvest earthworms in the middle of the night, a country-music-obsessed housewife abandons her family for fantasy and a young girl's love for her father transcends language. In this stunning debut, Souvankham Thammavongsa captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees in a nameless city, illuminating hopes, disappointments, love affairs and above all, the pursuit of a place to belong.

I am Indian. He is African. I know nothing of him, yet he’s my husband. I don’t know what his interests are. I don’t know the sound of his voice. I don’t even know what he looks like. I am worried about this marriage. Will he love me? Will I love him? Most importantly I wonder if the rumors are true about African men. If he is big…and can I handle that much man? My Arranged Marriage is a short erotic interracial romance. It is for mature readers only.

A former NFL star, Lakeebee Jackson is old, broke, handicapped and forgotten. But one day, he enters into a motel in his wheelchair with a pretty Asian woman, and what ensues is the most puzzling stay motel owner Ziggy Patel ever experiences. The Lakeebee Jackson Motel Story touches on the lives of Asian and Indian blue-collar workers and former professional African-American athletes.

亞銀想死這個念頭已經是很多年前的事，她把自己奉獻給這個互聯網足足二十四年，從BBS群組開始、ICQ年代、Yahoo Messenger、 MSN、以至各大討論區，然後 Facebook、 WhatsApp、Telegram、skype、LINE、微信、QQ...等等等等！廿多年裡，亞銀其實也只不過期求一段真摰的感情出現，可是直到現在還輪候中，她不知道是否某方面出錯了。 其實亞銀條件不錯，知書識禮而且有修養。樣貌是美人兒，當然是廿年前，不過爛船也有三斤釘.

Akira Tanaka's past as an undercover agent in Tokyo's underworld has caught up with his present. Now he must find out who kidnapped his only daughter, and why. Can he rescue her before it's too late? The lives of a father, a daughter, and a yakuza's daughter are all intertwined in this fast-paced 7,500 word short story. This is the first in a series of thrilling adventures featuring Tanaka.

Lo conosce bene Daruma, un bambino tondo e liscio come un'anguria che non si scoraggia mai e rotola in lungo e in largo alla ricerca di ciò che lo rende felice. Lo conoscono Momotarō, Urihime e Imotarō, amici inseparabili costretti ad affrontare i terribili Orchi Dentoni a colpi di frittelle, e pure il Bambino di Fango, che per realizzare i suoi sogni finisce per creare il Monte Fuji. Nelle terre di Yamato vivono tante creature straordinarie, ma ancora più straordinari sono i racconti che vi si narrano.

Before a week had passed, the place began to exert a weird fascination upon me. It is difficult to describe or to induce people to believe; but I felt as if the whole house was like a living organism slowly and imperceptibly digesting me by the action of some stupefying gastric juice. Perhaps the process had begun as soon as I set my foot in the house, but I distinctly remember the day on which I first was conscious of it.

簡介 : 一封盜賊的信紙....

The Path of Light is a collection of short stories nothing if not a mirror to the phenomenal range of human behavior. Taken from the Upanishads to the Jatakas to South Asian folklore, these simple but contemplative tales reveal how people are capable of both extreme cruelty and inordinate kindness.

Grace hated Trevor. Trevor hated Grace. Forced to work together in mixed doubles for a tennis tournament, Trevor and Grace aren't getting along. Upset, their coach challenges them to work together or find their dreams of making it to the US Open gone. Not wanting to lose a chance at playing in the open, the two argue, and the two enemies realize they have more in common than what they originally believed and a steamy fling in the locker room insues. Will their erotic affair help them or will it make these enemies hate each other even more?

Faithless is a work of experimental fiction weaving through various scenes and memories of being in love, out of love, and abused by love as told and experienced by Grace, a troubled 20-something-year-old struggling with her identity as a bisexual Korean-American. Everything is recounted as experienced - in fragments.

Matthew Jones didn't know what to expect when he checked into the Red Room Inn in Thailand, but to his surprise the hotel offers late night company for those who want it. Eager to to cheat on his wife with a whore, Matthew opts to have the additional company, but quickly realizes selecting a hooker for his late-night pleasure is harder than it seems. Will he be able to decide from the infinite options available for him? Find out in this taboo erotic tale! The Red Room Inn is a steamy erotic tale told from the male POV. It is 3,000 words long and for mature readers only.

When top college football player, Jamaal Lewis, wants to transfer schools, his choice won’t be based on the school’s academic prestige, it’s chances of winning a national championship or the amount of money he could receive from NIL deals. What matters the most to him is which school has the most Asian women! Jamaal has always been attracted to Asian women, but at his current university there was a small population of them. Wanting to increase his chances to date an Asian woman, Jamaal decides to transfer to a university with the greatest population of Asian women in the country, ...