In this dream, I speak to my ancestors in the language I never learned. I find them pressed against the floorboards, hands knotted in war-hymn. Air of crushed goji and lemongrass—the house, shifting with Javan warmth. Here, they still keep the names they were born with, as if they never needed to change origin to […]
Tiffany Aurelia
Tiffany Aurelia is a South-East-Asian writer and student from Indonesia. She has won runner-up of The Kenyon Review's Patricia Grodd Prize and the Woorila Louis Rockne Prize. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Diode, Up the Staircase Quarterly, The Shore, and elsewhere. She loves ocean swims and strawberry matcha