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Chris Kouju Koh

@ckohwrites.bsky.social
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Chinese father, Sino-Kadazan mother, I write fantasy and reinterpret #Malaysia and #Borneo myths 🇲🇾 🇱🇺 🇧🇳 Editor & ex-Journalist of 10 years SFWA member, ADHD, 🏳️‍🌈 Ally | 🚫AI Malaysian Creatives starter pack here! go.bsky.app/Q8517ww

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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a miracle. Strangers <3 helping with a cat we literally thought was at death's door, and the silly kitty starts eating again. We are going to pay it forward. If ever our gofundme exceeds the actual goal, my spouse and I already decided we will help other causes. gofund.me/1c1cd0618
Goldie the cat sitting on my spouse's lap. She WAS at death's door but somehow the silly fluff decided to start eating. The blood transfusion probably helped. She has IMHA, a severe type of anemia but we don't know the root cause yet. Still waiting for actual diagnosis.
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
HUGE thank you everyone for your support for our kitty Goldie! I honestly didn't expect her to eat 😭 I don't know how long more we will have her, but this is a blessing. She is our fur child, our comfort in these times. We love having her sleep at the end of the bed, or climb onto our laps purring🙀
A picture of a healthier Goldie weeks ago. Our cat looks a bit concerned as she lounges upon the blankets on our bed.
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This cat! It's a miracle! SHE'S EATING. We said like goodbye to this pussy twice in 2 years already! Thank you so much for your donations, guys 😭 I swear she's turning my hair white (full story here: gofund.me/1c1cd0618)
Screenshot of my conversation with my spouse, who witnessed Goldie eating by herself for the first time since we brought her home from the hospital
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Storytime: Goldie loves to lounge next to the keyboard of my spouse while they WFH. Eventually, kitty wants attention & pets. When she doesn't get it, she paws at the nearby hand, becoz surely this is what human hands are for! Then one day she grabbed an arm to lick & chomp! gofund.me/1c1cd0618
Our kitty Goldie Doubloon the Pirate Queen grabs an arm to lick and chomp
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Update on our kitty. Goldie has IMHA "Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia", it's a symptom not the cause. It all depends now if we can get her to eat and accept the new meds. Sorry for the multiple posts. Here is cat tax
Goldie the kitty sitting on a favourite pillow earlier this year
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Our Goldie is back from the hospital. So happy she's home (and so very drugged). Best birthday present. Thank you for your donations! (full story here gofund.me/1c1cd0618)
Picture of our beautiful fur child, Goldie, drugged from the hospitalPicture of our beautiful fur child, Goldie, drugged from the hospital
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is really a longshot, but would deeply appreciate if you could read about our kitty Goldie 🥲😿 www.gofundme.com/f/please-hel...
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Donate to Please help with Goldie's vet bills!, organized by Christina K
My name is Chris and my spouse is AJ. We are asking your help wit… Christina K needs your support for Please help with Goldie's vet bills!
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Happy my article got published in Fanfare, for a game I really love: Fallout London ^^ fanfare.pub/britains-bel... #Folon #fallout #LarryTheCat #gaming #videogames
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Britain’s beloved Larry the Cat inspires new furry companion in Fallout London
A Tale of Video Game Pets; ‘Chief Mouser’ the latest to follow you across the wasteland
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The Thanksgiving decor outside our hotel in St Paul, Minnesota, is lovely
The Thanksgiving decor outside our hotel in St Paul, Minnesota. There are pumpkins and cute scarecrows with autumn leaves and straw
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Admitting the beauty of Union Station, Chicago! That Christmas tree is lit. Get it? Lit? .. I'll be leaving now
A selfie of me with the Christmas tree at Union Station, Chicago
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
How to stay humble in an Asian family: Me: "Hey mum, look, I got my article published in this online magazine." Mum: "Were you paid?" Me: "No. But my short story in that anthology did get me USD250." Mum: "Peanuts!" #writerslife #keepbelieving
Screenshot from the game Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, when your character looks like they might be swallowed whole by a monster (in my case Writer's Despair) #gottakeepbelieving
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Interesting bathroom PSA in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. It is nice to know that if I am on fire, someone will kick in the door to rescue me
Funny public service announcement in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport bathroom
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
16 hours on a plane? Hell. Views like this... almost worth it XD #scenery #clouds
A view of pretty clouds out an airplane window
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
@zoeyhedman.bsky.social Guess what I brought to read on the plane? Your story is next! ^^ @aanpress.bsky.social
The front cover of the anthology + mini RPG Our Dust Earth, by Air and Nothingness Press
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Interesting selection of airport reading in the duty-free store. Ofc Stephen King and some regulars are there XD
Selection of books and magazines sold at the airport
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Woot. After two months of prep and recovery from the move to Chicago, am finally flying back to Malaysia today. Hope I survive! Pan mee, chee cheong fun, hailam chicken rice, Tuaran mee, here I come!! 🤤
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Most random thing my spouse said: "Lex Luthor has a shapely head" #superman #myspousefindslexluthorhot
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Settling into the new apartment, and pumped at earning my SEO certificate yesterday. Zooming in now on African culture, driving license and writing new articles on Medium next~
Our cat Goldie looking out the window of our Chicago apartment, whih shows a third-storey view of some suburb-like homes right in the middle of a city. The apartment is mostly unpacked and somewhat fit for humans.
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Today is apparently day one of a heatwave in Chicago, of all things I forgot and decided to bake banana and chocolate muffins 😜
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Now that I've settled in a new city, I start looking through open calls for submission. Then I stumble across one from Taco Bell Quarterly. Not sure I am qualified to write for such greatness XD
The open call for fiction submissions from Taco Bell Quarterly, and it is taco(t)lessly epic.
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Moving into our Chicago flat. Waiting for the movers to bring our stuff. The living room floor will never be as clean as it is now
The living room before the furniture is brought inMe lying on the living room floor with the cat watching
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
"The Poop Rule is the latest decluttering trend right now!" Germaphobes: "... I will have nothing left" 😑
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Chicago is inspiring!
Chicago cityscape Chicago cityscape A Chicago street
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I was 'pressured' to order something called a Route 44 cold brew coffee. Look at the size of it! 😯
Route 44 cup of cold brew coffee from Sonic. Huge!
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Still on my great road trip from Austin to Chicago, and was thrilled to be able to find a Malaysian restaurant near Dallas! It was so lovely to talk to fellow Malaysians at Malacca Cafe, and eat satay, roti bakar, teh tarik, and kon lau wan tan mee again
The storefront of Malacca Cafe, a fabulous Malaysian restaurant near DallasA delicious takeaway portion of dry noodles with a dark sauce, baby napa cabbage, charsiu (barbecued pork), dumplings and delicious brothMalacca Cafe's mango juice
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Super excited to see my favourite writing software @ellipsus.com has introduced yet another amazing theme in celebration of Pride month! I especially love Ellipsus' themes Forest and Dark for inspiration for my 3am jottings (I swear I'm not sponsored XD)
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
@indraladypotato.bsky.social What, you live? XD
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
For breakfast from a hotel stove, a buttery Abraham Lincoln-Frankenstein French toast topped with chopped strawberries for sweetness. I forgot to bring the sugar, don't judge me XD
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
669 words written, in the dark of a pitch black hotel room while my family sleeps, or tries to. Not much but I'm proud to type something~ #writingcommunity
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This is my life now, post-packing. Recovering and Snuggling with a pillow on a lazy Saturday morning..until I got a fuzzy plus one. #cat #caturday
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Super proud my flashfic got into the longlist of Fractured Literary Anthology 5 by @fracturedlit.bsky.social ! Didn't make it for the shortlist but still feeling pumped and grateful. Poured a lot of my soul into my little fic & apparently received some praise too ^^ fracturedlit.com/anthology-5-...
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fractured lit anthology 5 prize - Fractured
judged by Tara Isabel Zambrano December 01 to February 02, 2025 Add to Calendar submit This contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted. We are eagerly reading your stories! Time to sen...
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
First stressful stage of moving house is done and more to go, but wanted to share how proud I am for my story to be included in the Our Dust Earth anthology by @aanpress.bsky.social! Can't wait to get back to normal schedule in the new place and writing 🙂
Holding up two copies of the Our Dust Earth anthology volumes by Air and Nothingness Press, a series of stories based on a hybrid Dying Earth world
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Have been crazy chaotic busy the last few weeks because moving next month to another state. Anyone have any house moving tips? And a strong pair of arms?? 🤪
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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"Our Dust Earth" is set to ship to AaN Central on Friday. Copies will go in the mail to KS backers next week, followed by preorders. If you would like to preorder a copy yourself of our SF anthology and included micro RPG - aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Me typing random names in LibGen for authors whose work Meta stole from, and uses to train AI: Hey! I know some of these names! @singingtotigers.bsky.social @mteasdalewriter.bsky.social
A screenshot of LibGen showing a list of authors who contributed to the anthology Trenchcoats Towers and Trolls by World Weaver Press
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
When the cat does not care about you being on a zoom call ie much pettings were dispensed #pets
Trying to see around a big fluffy cat during a zoom call
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I see people calling themselves authors. I thought this is when one publishes a book? I dunno XD #authorsky #writersky #writingcommunity
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
#writingcommunity #authorsky #writersky Wow! This guy published 8 books! I know they say "Write what you know" but... 😅 www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Serial bank robber — who dabbles as a crime novelist — allegedly strikes again
Dorian Trevor Sykes, 41, had been released from prison in February last year and was under supervised federal supervision, officials said.
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Please support this publisher! @aanpress.bsky.social deserves it for all their amazing work through the years ❤️
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
#rats #petrats Stepkid sends me a post about a fancy rat who nibbles on soap. My reply:
Screenshot of a discord conversation showing a post shaming a rat who nibbles on soap. I reply that 'He sounds squeaky clean to me' XD
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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Our ✨March 2025 Issue✨ is now free to read online 🥳🥳🥳! Read it all here: www.havenspec.com/issue-nineteen
Haven Spec Magazine, Issue Nineteen, March 2025. Cover and table of contents.  

The issue is now free to read, and its contents are as follows:

Cover Art by Abi Stevens Art. 

Fiction:
Handsomest Gentlest by M. R. Robinson.
A True Account of a Pre-Teen Blob by Marie Vibbert. 
Coming Home to Leviathan by Sagan Yee. 
Host by Catherine McCarthy. 

Poetry:
Bandits of Dream City by Sharang Biswas. 
What Does Your Revolution Look Like? by Ewen Ma. 
Dawn Witching with Crows by Devin Miller. 
Hermit of the Crossroads by Marie Brennan. 

Nonfiction:
Letter from the Editor, Ya Herd? By Leon Perniciaro. 
Short Fiction Reviews By Danai Christopoulou. 

Interviews with Lindz McLeod and Terese Mason Pierre.
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Been trying to keep to writing-related posts. But that is TWO green card holders (like me) detained in US, threatened to be revoked. Really feel for the wife waiting 4 hours at the airport to pick up her German long time-US PR husband, not knowing he was detained, stripped naked, denied his meds🤢
Screenshot of a news article excerpt describing a German green card holder resident being detained and cruelly interrogated by supposed immigration agents. This is the second case of a green card holder being detained in the US within a week
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Super proud for my story 'Okeāna Four' to be published in the Our Dust Earth anthology by @aanpress.bsky.social! Preorder is available now, and apparently ships April 2025! It includes a mini-TTRPG of a hybrid dying earth system, with 19 stories to inspire worldbuilding aanpress.com/aanorder.htm...
Cover showing a tentacled robot monster hovering in the sky and being ridden by a suited figure, confronting a 2nd figure on the ground, standing in rubble. Lots of fog/toxic vapors swirl about. This is the Our Dust Earth anthology by Air and Nothingness Press, open for preorder! It contains a collection of a mini-TTRPG of a hybrid dying earth world, and 19 short stories to inspire worldbuilding!
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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Our ✨March 2025 issue✨ is ready at last! Subscribers can read it today, but everybody else has to wait till next week. Why not subscribe and feast your eyes on all of these literary wonders to behold? Subscribe through Patreon: www.patreon.com/HavenSpecMag...
Haven Spec Magazine, Issue Nineteen, March 2025. Cover and table of contents. 

The contents are as follows:

Cover Art by Abi Stevens Art. 

Fiction:
Handsomest Gentlest by M. R. Robinson.
A True Account of a Pre-Teen Blob by Marie Vibbert. 
Coming Home to Leviathan by Sagan Yee. 
Host by Catherine McCarthy. 

Poetry:
Bandits of Dream City by Sharang Biswas. 
What Does Your Revolution Look Like? by Ewen Ma. 
Dawn Witching with Crows by Devin Miller. 
Hermit of the Crossroads by Marie Brennan. 

Nonfiction:
Letter from the Editor, Ya Herd? By Leon Perniciaro. 
Short Fiction Reviews By Danai Christopoulou. 

Interviews with Lindz McLeod and Terese Mason Pierre.
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I find this especially beautiful because sometimes I forget to stop. And because my idea of relaxing is to... write more. I can't even remember the last time I felt the urge to play video games, an activity I used to be addicted to!
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I wrote my first poem! Well, the first I submitted for anything. Honestly I'm terrible at it, and can't quite understand the folks who turn up for poetry nights in the 3 years I was in Scotland. My Scottish friends are so good-natured though! such natural romantics. (The drinks probably helped XD)
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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
There’s only four days left to nominate for the Hugo Awards, and we would love it if you considered us! We’re so proud of everything we’ve published this year, plus, we’re also eligible in the semiprozine category! Here are the issues we published last year 👇🧵
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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We received A LOT of submissions! To be honest... MOST of them are quite good! So many talented writers out there!🤩 We have some wonderful things planned - fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; and we're still reading! psychopomp.com/fantasy/
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
(Updated) So many exciting projects for 2025! - #shortstory per month pledge (5/12) - #Malaysia #fantasyfic collection (2/12) - fun mannerpunk erotica w/ @winter-shaw-writes.bsky.social - (hopefully) research trip to Malaysia later this year - medium.com/@ckohwrites #amwriting #writingcommunity
A view during the Klias River Cruise, in Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia. A small boat with a blue canvas roof on the water, that reflects the mauve and pink colours of the sunset. The view is serene with the silhouettes of trees, and green foliage in the distance. 
Photo by Roberto Repose (https://unsplash.com/@reposo)
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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Trying hard not to feel disheartened. All 7 stories in the latest issue of a certain SFF magazine are ALL science fiction. I check other publications - SCIFI!! It's like no one wants to read fucking fantasy anymore. #fantasyficwriter #fantasyisdying #writersky #shortstory #writingcommunity
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