The agent: “This one is facing South-West.” [Opens the door.] Me: “But… There are no windows?” Agent: “Yes, there are! (Opens the bathroom door.) Look!” Me: “This is not a window, this is… (Looks in his French-to-English dictionary) …ah, you don’t have a word for that. A slit? A basement…
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In the three years I’ve lived in this neighbourhood of Hong Kong, I have often noticed them: two greying men, fifty or sixty-something, playing Chinese chess on a foldable table and chairs, right at the entrance of a back alley close to my home. They would be there every evening…
Leave a CommentWrestle a 70kg coconut crab with bare hands, and eat it afterwards, cracking its shell between your teeth. Try fugu in Japan and fried tarentula in Cambodia. Learn martial arts in a forbidden monastery up the Himalaya with Liam Neeson. Hook up, dead drunk, with a sailor on HK’s Lockhart Road,…
Leave a CommentCurrently on holiday in Southern Australia, chauffeuring around Ms. Cigut on one of her wine tours. It was in a wine cellar, maybe the fifteenth or twentieth we’ve visited since we arrived, and tasting possible the hundredth wine of our tour that I suddenly realized something. Without words, it is…
Leave a CommentStephen Mazur of F&SF kindly asked me a few questions about “The Rider”. Here is the full interview, for those interested — caution, there might be some light spoilers: https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2014/10/16/interview-jerome-cigut-on-the-rider/ Have a great week-end everyone, JC
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I am very happy to announce that my novelette “The Rider” will appear in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (aka F&SF) in September. No, strike that, I am not very happy — I am overjoyed, ecstatic, bouncing all over the place, and still not completely sure this is really happening. It’s a…
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North-East of Hong Kong lies the vast Sai Kung East Country Park, much appreciated for its views, its white sand beaches and its hiking trails. Yet one of my favourite parts of the area is the little town of Chek Keng, North of the peninsula, where (as far as I could tell) almost…
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I’m very happy to announce that my short story Fish Sauce has been published in the Hong Kong Writers Circle’s 2014 anthology, Another Hong Kong, an exploration of what the great city could be, could have been, could become, several dozen different and original point of views. Among the stories…
1 CommentI really like my tablet. I do. I have all my favorite newspapers’ apps in there, my magazines too, and a few subscriptions to some reviews as well. It’s great, knowing that they are all in there, ready to be read, just a few “taps” away. Except that — let’s…
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