In this second collection of short nonfiction, we have a dozen real-life tales for you: stories of growing up, love, loss, helplessness, joy, adventure, taking charge, and … letting go …

In this collection of nonfiction, nine authors share their separate experiences from exploring different corners of the globe: in these stories you will find adventure, fear, amusement, heartbreak, mystery, amazement, and hope…. Through these pages you can re-live those journeys, and discover how sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction. You can also connect with the authors and get updates on the page fb.me/SriAnthologies where they share some photos and thoughts.

Welcome, dear reader, to the sixth volume of this vibrant anthology series, where fact and fiction interlock in a dance of storytelling! As with the volume before, we offer you a tapestry woven from diverse threads, a kaleidoscope of experiences to ignite your imagination and pique your curiosity. Within these pages, you'll find yourself transported to realms both familiar and fantastical. You'll meet characters who will challenge your perspectives and stay with you long after the final line. Whether you crave the raw honesty of personal narrative or the immersive escapism of fiction, this anthology caters to your every literary desire. This year we also have some experimental results from generative AI: most of this preface, the two haikus and one story in this volume, were generated by AI.

In this fourth collection of short stories, we have more real-life tales for you, some fiction too, and some that straddle the two! Ms Delight — Brooke Chew — 1 Ah Moi — H Gill — 8 The Large Medium — May Han Thong — 18 Black Forest — Jo Lim — 31 Cosmic Song — Yen-Kheng Lim — 36 Pandemic — Jan Thong — 56 To Be, Or Not To Be — Rajesh R Parwani — 62 A Marriage Tale — Anya Seth — 72 Fading Years — Jan Thong — 78 I Remember — Rajesh R Parwani — 83

In this fifth collection of short stories we have more tales for you: some true, some made up, and some in the grey zone! Cry — Thong May Han — 1 About Time — Rajesh R Parwani — 10 The Way We Once Were — Anya Seth — 20 The Folk — Jay Yap — 28 A Place to be Quiet — Jo Lim — 38 39 Michan Road — Renée Abrahams — 43 Power Play — Thong Kim Fook — 48 Subterfuge in Switzerland — Thong May Han — 59 The Five Stages of Unclehood in Singapore — Rajesh R Parwani — 70

In this third collection of short stories we have both fiction and nonfiction! Can you guess which is which? A Letter to Mr. Nobody — Jo Lim — 1 Still Wanderings — Manali Pattnaik — 5 Voting for Earth — May Han Thong — 17 Beyond the Mountain — Lingzhi Li — 29 Shrey’s Corner — Yen-Kheng Lim— 34 Heroes in Plain Sight — Neha G — 52 Sisterhood — Elena M — 60 Aliens Cleansing — Jan Thong — 65 Jalan Kayu Primary School — Rajesh R Parwani — 70 The Glory of Death — May Han Thong — 78 High Fever — Rajesh R Parwani — 88

Shyam Selvadurai pieces together the best of Sri Lankan poetry and fiction in this anthology. From the Sinhala and Tamil writers of the 1950s to diasporic writers of today, from stories of love and longing to those of brutality and death, this masterfully constructed anthology will give you a rich sense Sri Lanka’s history, its people and the stories they have to tell.