Ascension :: One of my earliest short stories from 2003. A tale of loyalty and honour in a world gone bad. It's not near as polished as my later works, but if you are a Hong Kong film buff, you might be interested to know that it's a homage to John Woo's blood opera The Killer.

The Reckoning :: A techno-thriller that I started but never finished. It goes like this: a group of UN diplomats have grown tired of seeing war criminals escape justice. So they form a death squad and... well, you can fill in the rest. In the end, though, I felt the story was too flamboyant to ever see publication. Have a read and decide for yourself.

Surveillance :: Yet another thriller that I abandoned. In this one, a covert unit of the Special Branch (Malaysia's Gestapo) carries out surveillance to gather dirt on an important figure. But I found the premise to be too sordid and misogynistic. It just didn't seem plausible. Then, several months after I wrote this, Malaysian Health Minister Chua Soi Lek was forced to resign under circumstances remarkably similar to my story. Spooky.

Homecoming :: Now here's a tale with a blockbuster concept. A writer returns home from abroad, expecting to see his family at the airport, but what he gets instead is the Special Branch. Very suspenseful. Still, I found myself questioning the first-person viewpoint too much. If the protagonist himself is narrating the story, what's to stop him from lying or exaggerating?