July 18, 2026

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Short Story: There Are No More Fish In The Sea by Fiona Kwok

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In this short story, Fiona Kwok takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of ethics, emotions, and feelings, with an ending that will leave them perplexed.

Uncle Chin has a boisterous laugh. The kind that you do not take seriously because he does not anyway. His eyes are beady and small, yet round and soft, like an old dog—an aged hound—weary from living yet wanting of love. You kind of feel for him, no matter how sleazy he might act. 

Which is why I keep staring at the hovering coconut in the ombre sky as I catch him studying the creases of my white bikini top from the corner of my eye.

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