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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! https://go.bsky.app/Q8517ww

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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Mar 13

(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 · Aug 27

You are crazy and I love you XD

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Aug 26

Yes it's a bit distracting, I am not sure whether black background, or a different fog background would be better

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Aug 25

Sparks joy ❤️

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Aug 25

I want to be known as an adventurer! And rogue class

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Aug 25

I ... Actually read it that way too And I'm not that tired, just a little dyslexic XD

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Aug 25

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

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Aug 22

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

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Aug 22

You did a great job ❤️

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Aug 21

Read that as double breasted for some reason.. I need more sleep XD Loving your photos!

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Aug 21

16 hours on a plane? Hell. Views like this... almost worth it XD
#scenery #clouds

A view of pretty clouds out an airplane window

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Aug 21

I've been enjoying every story so far! 😊

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Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Aug 21

@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 · Aug 20

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

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Aug 20

Woohoo good for you!! I am behind at the moment of my own goals

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Aug 20

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!! 🤤

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Aug 2

Most random thing my spouse said: "Lex Luthor has a shapely head"
#superman #myspousefindslexluthorhot

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Jul 10

I was devastated and wanted more! Can't wait for Friday~

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Jul 9

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.

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Jul 9

Aww you have a beautiful smile ^^ And look, I practised putting on makeup because of you? (After that, I went back to being a hag ;)

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Jun 21

I'm a writer, not quite an artist. But I can testify that now that I've moved to a state with less crazy and discriminatory laws, I feel so much safer and my brain firing with ideas! I've started to write a new story story ^^

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Jun 21

Today is apparently day one of a heatwave in Chicago, of all things I forgot and decided to bake banana and chocolate muffins 😜

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Jun 17

Ooh exciting~

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Jun 17

Haha! Wishing you luck with all the Bells and whistles ;)

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Jun 17

Write it! XD

Chris Kouju Koh @ckohwrites.bsky.social · Jun 17

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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