Day 1: We were at the opening of Pesta Karya Lumut (Lumut Creative Festival) organised by @lamankaryalumut and @kuasaperak Thank you artists and organisers for making it happen 🙏🏼
It’s running from 7,8 and 9 February at the Lumut Waterfront, Perak. Beautiful vibes in a beautiful spot by the seaside. The indie bands are absolutely amazing. This reminds us so of the British indie music festivals, but with better weather and more laid back atmos. We love the chill and creative crowd here.
We attended a zine making workshop, which was therapeutic. There are preloved and jewellery pop up shops. Today Saturday we’re looking forward to see the poetry recital. Some are by poets we saw at @kalamkreatifkl
More photos by @zarinaholmesphotography coming on the feed.
This is our chill seaside home 🏝 Say hi to us. See you there.
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Listening to the Mountain Goats in the MRT on a Saturday Night Heading Toward the Water, a poem by @jackmalik_pr, one of many featured in the anthology “It Takes So Much To Be Nothing”.
Recited by Salina Christmas at TBS, Kuala Lumpur.
The book was launched on 3 November 2024. The anthology is available via Maya Press.
@mythinkcity
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Still Brickfields, a poem by @malachiedwin Vethamani, one of many featured in the anthology “Malaysian Places and Spaces”.
Recited by Salina Christmas at Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, in front of KL Sentral Station.
The book was launched on 3 November 2024 at @mountbattenkl. The anthology is available via Maya Press.
@mythinkcity
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1980s, Second Malaysian Emergency period. Soldiers fearing for their lives turn to witchcraft to protect themselves. One dark art allegedly makes the soldier impenetrable, unharmed by knives and bullets. However, a Royal Ranger goes mad after his dark art consumes his sanity.
Chapter: “The devil’s shirt”. From the e-book “The Devil from the Deep”, part of the upcoming third novel by @salinachristmas.
The Constant Companion Tales series is available in paperback and e-book on Amazon and all major bookstores worldwide.
🕷Salinachristmas.com
October Reading 🍁 A series of short readings to celebrate the long nights.
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Malacca, October 1965. The invading paratroopers, deceived by their so-called allies, find themselves stuck in a muddy mangrove forest. There, they’re acquainted with the horrifying Constant Companion, the servant of the Raden clan. Their nightmare begins.
Chapter: “A lair of demons and vampires”. From “A Request For Betrayal”, the sequel to “The Keeper Of My Kin” by @salinachristmas. Also available as the e-book “A Truce Made In Blood”.
The Constant Companion Tales series is available in paperback and e-book on Amazon and all major bookstores worldwide.
🕷Salinachristmas.com
October Reading 🍁 A series of short readings to celebrate the long nights.
#bookreading #octoberread #autumnread #authors #booktok #horror #fantasy #books #halloween #gothic #remembranceday #theconstantcompaniontales
Publisher: Story Of Books
Editor: @zarinaholmes
Straits of Malacca, October 1965. Lt John Reid and his crew of the Royal Malayan Navy spot a ‘ghost’ trawler floating unmanned. It looks like an enemy vessel, but what happens to its crew? Lt Reid has a bad feeling about it.
Chapter: “A lair of demons and vampires”. From “A Request For Betrayal”, the sequel to “The Keeper Of My Kin” by @salinachristmas. Also available as the e-book “A Truce Made In Blood”.
The Constant Companion Tales series is available in paperback and e-book on Amazon and all major bookstores worldwide.
🕷Salinachristmas.com
October Reading 🍁 A series of short readings to celebrate the long nights.
#bookreading #octoberread #autumnread #authors #booktok #horror #fantasy #books #halloween #gothic #remembranceday #theconstantcompaniontales
Publisher: Story Of Books Editor: @zarinaholmes
Sabah, 1964. A were-tiger attacks a group of Malaysian soldiers during their patrol but only Lt Wang and Pt Raden could see the beast. Whose were-tiger is it? What’s the connection between Wang and Raden?
Chapter: “The nemesis”. From “A Request For Betrayal”, the sequel to “The Keeper Of My Kin” by @salinachristmas.
The Constant Companion Tales series is available in paperback and e-book on Amazon and all major bookstores worldwide.
🕷Salinachristmas.com
October Reading 🍁 A series of short readings to celebrate the long nights.
#bookreading #octoberread #autumnread #authors #booktok #horror #fantasy #books #halloween #gothic
Publisher Story Of Books Editor: @zarinaholmes.
In July 1952, Sergeant Wright and the Royal Malayan Police are called to to intervene in a secret face-off between the local vigilantes and the Communist guerrillas. They arrive to find a slaughter carried out by something not human at all.
Chapter: “The night of the flying blades” from The Keeper Of My Kin, the first novel by @salinachristmas, edited by @zarinaholmes.
October Reading 🍁 A series of short readings to celebrate the long nights.
#bookreading #octoberread #autumnread #photographers #authors #storyofbooks #horror #gothic #halloween #theconstantcompaniontales
Heathcliff, devastated by the death of her beloved Catherine, and angered by her desertion yet again, puts a curse on her. He wants Cathy to be a ghost, to haunt him, so she won’t rest in peace. And because he can’t imagine a life without her. Heathcliff and Cathy end up being ghosts wandering the moors. This reading of “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë is of Chapter XVI.
October Reading 🍁 A series of daily short readings to celebrate the long nights.
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The boy soldier Yamashiro Ryu is the only survivor and the sole witness of the were-tiger attack on his unit in September 1945. This is his story, taken from the chapter “The boy soldier who saw everything” from The Keeper Of My Kin, the first novel by @salinachristmas, edited by@zarinaholmes. But why didn’t he shoot the were-tiger and save his unit when he could have done so? The answer is in the second novel, A Request For Betrayal.
October Reading 🍁 A series of daily short readings to celebrate the long nights.
#bookreading #octoberread #autumnread #photographers #authors #storyofbooks #horror #gothic #halloween
October Reading: Frankenstein. Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
October Reading 🍁 The Monster plots to be liked and loved, hoping that the humans will overlook his ugliness and see his kindness. From "Frankenstein. Or, The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Excerpt from Chapter 12.
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October Reading: Choice of intoxicants by class… or caste.
October Reading 🍁 Choice of intoxicants by class… or caste. “Dharu and bhang” (1951) talks about the alcohol preffered by the kesatriya or warrior caste, and the cannabis preferred by the more contemplative Brahmin caste. Taken from the book “Cultural Psychiatry and Medical Anthropology” edited by my Medical Anthropology lecturer at UCL Prof Roland Littlewood and Simon Dein.
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