Author

Davian Aw

Davian Aw's writing has appeared most recently in Ares Magazine, Plasma Frequency, and Every Day Fiction. He also has the dubious honour of winning the 2012 Lyttle Lytton contest (for crafting the worst possible opening sentence to a novel in under 200 characters). Davian was born and bred in Singapore, where he currently lives with his family and a pet cactus named Arthur. This is his first publication in DSF.

The Future History of Your Body

They take your hipbone and join it to another's. Excitement at the matching sizes shine on the paleontologists' faces, tired from weeks of digging through rock. They set it reverently aside from the pile of bones, adding to the slowly growing constructions of complete human…

Hero

The hero was supposed to die. Louis saved him with his mind, sitting at the back of the cinema where no one might notice the concentration on his face. His hand jerked as he shoved the man safely away from his gory end in a wood chipper. The audience broke into laughter. Repeat…

Note to a Stranger

We met in the space the mundane shops go, in those unscheduled moments when others take their place and old Uncle Joe popping by for a snack finds the 7-Eleven replaced by Maerlyn's Magick Shoppe. When the 7-Eleven went, I went with it. The air grew rich and heady with magic.…