Author: Tze Chua

Tze works in healthcare but her first ambition was to be a writer. She wrote it in a school essay when she was seven years old. She only started doing something about it in the Year of the Coronavirus, but hey, better late than never.

Suppose It Were True

January 11, 2021 by Tze Chua Hot, Speculative Fiction 0 Comments

Jeremy sat very meekly with his knees together. He clutched his notes and tried to look as though he was behaving himself. 

The professor was still cross about Jeremy’s over-enthusiastic ingress, which had upset his umbrella stand in a spectacular manner. “When you graduate, Mr Davies, your patients will expect you to walk into their room, not galumph. And preferably without breaking things. Psychiatric patients do not appreciate being startled so unceremoniously, especially the bestial ones. You do know that they are more sensitive.”

“Yes, prof. Sorry, prof.”

Thunder rumbled and the professor sighed. “Today of all days you have to break my umbrella.”

After Goldilocks

December 15, 2020 by Tze Chua Fantasy, Hot 0 Comments

In the middle of the woods stood a cottage that had, once upon a time, been home to three contented bears. But late one summer, poor Mama Bear got sick and died. Papa Bear and Baby Bear continued living in the cottage, but it seemed to grow a little shabbier each day.

One dreary suppertime, Baby Bear looked sadly at the ruins of his chair lying in a corner of the room. There was a hole where the seat used to be, and one of its legs was cracked. It had been broken by that lump of a Goldilocks who’d sat in it to gobble up his nice dinner. Papa Bear had promised to fix it up, but he hadn’t done it yet.

Haywire

October 16, 2020 by Tze Chua 2020 Fall Writing Contest, Hot, Speculative Fiction 0 Comments

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I am able to confirm that the suspension is an emergency safety response to a malicious hack of our systems. Our IT team is looking into the matter on an urgent basis.