Megan Chee

Jul 17, 2024 | nightmare-magazine.com | Wendy Wagner |Megan Chee

CW: implied sexual assault, child death, death. Haw Par Villa in the rain was a splash of garish color. The dark red footpath, glistening wet. The ornate tiered gate that greeted visitors with a carving of a tiger, etched in gold and blue. The strange and unsettling statues scattered across the park—a woman’s smiling head on the body of a giant crab, a cluster of laughing mermaids with mouths a little too big for their faces.

Jul 2, 2024 | uncannymagazine.com | Megan Chee |Clockpunk Studios

The planet of the worms is a cold, barren, sunless place. The worms do not think. They feel nothing but hunger, and so they eat. They eat through the planet’s surface. They eat through the planet’s molten core. Over time, the planet grows speckled and spongelike, riddled with tunnels and holes. But the worms don’t just eat rock. They eat distance. They eat space.

Jun 10, 2024 | lightspeedmagazine.com | Wendy Wagner |Megan Chee

There are a near-infinite number of strange and marvelous worlds in this Universe, and in all of them there are Cats. I see that you are an ordinary person and not a Cat; thus, I can ascertain that you know very little about the Universe. Perhaps you do not even know that there are other worlds beyond your own. If you are fortunate, I might tell you a little about our vast and mysterious Universe, and the myriad worlds within, and the Cats that dwell there.

Jun 25, 2023 | clarkesworldmagazine.com | Megan Chee |Kate Baker

Megan Chee has lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, and is currently based in Singapore. Her work has been published in Fantasy Magazine, Nature Futures, and Cast of Wonders.

May 29, 2023 | strangehorizons.com | Megan Chee |Lune Loh |Rosamund Lannin |Ada Palmer

Many eons ago, when the first dawn broke over the newborn mortal world, the children of the Heavenly Realm assembled at the Golden Sky Palace. They knelt before the Immortal Emperor, their foreheads pressed respectfully to the floor. One by one, he bid them rise and approach the throne to receive their mandates of duty. Jūnlǐ, the Third Son, was appointed God of the Hunt. Sīyùn, the Eighth Daughter, was named Goddess of Scholars. And so on, and so forth.