Little Book of Tuala

By Leon Wing

Tuala looks like you and me—human, that is—but something is not right. Trapped on earth, an offspring of a union of human and fae, Tuala has gossamer wings on her back masquerading as tattoos. When she gets hangry, she turns into something other than her sweet seductive svelte self. She needs to be sated so she can earn her earthly upkeep as a sex worker in sweltering Kuala Lumpur.  She must imbibe humans—whole, body and soul, all the blood and juices. Vampiric, when she feels like it, she will bestow some of her faerie attributes into humans.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WingWorldWeb
• Release date: Feb 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215906385

Leon Wing

Leon Wing's poems can be found in PoetryPoem, Readings from Readings 2, The Malaysian Poetic Chronicles, Eksentrika, Rambutan Literary, and Haikuniverse. A poem about the Syrian migration to Europe is featured in the Fixi anthology Little Basket 2017. He occasionally takes some poem apart and puts it back together, on the poetry blog puisipoesy.blogspot.com.   He has short stories published in Eksentrika, Queer Southeast Asia and the Canadian Asian literary magazine Ricepaper, and in anthologies like PJ Confidential and Remang, a collection of Malaysian ghost stories.

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About the Book

Tuala looks like you and me—human, that is—but something is not right. Trapped on earth, an offspring of a union of human and fae, Tuala has gossamer wings on her back masquerading as tattoos. When she gets hangry, she turns into something other than her sweet seductive svelte self. She needs to be sated so she can earn her earthly upkeep as a sex worker in sweltering Kuala Lumpur.  She must imbibe humans—whole, body and soul, all the blood and juices. Vampiric, when she feels like it, she will bestow some of her faerie attributes into humans.

Tuala

Tuala heads straight for the most colorful items in the vintage shop. She doesn’t look about to check out other alternatives. She knows what she wants. She has run out of clothes, only a few dresses remaining in her wardrobe.

She struggles not to squirm—the money from the last john inside her hoodie pocket feels filthy from handling by successive owners. Earlier, in her flat, she instructed her john to place the money on the table. After he left (hopefully satisfied and eager for a next session soon) she gathered up the money into the hoodie she changed into.

Tuala hears high heels teetering after her. She is aware, without looking, a salesgirl has wheeled around, pausing her spiel to some customer. Tuala wonders if the girl caught a flash of profile of an obese thing in a hoodie, dull-colored amongst all the bright items under the