44.5kg by Amanda Ruiqing Flynn

44.5kg

i used to starve myself to fit in the hands of a man
i used to starve myself to fit in
i used to starve myself to fit
i used to starve
i used
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i used
i used to hunger
i used to hunger for love
i used to hunger for love in the wrong places
i used to hunger for love in the wrong places of a man

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Amanda Ruiqing Flynn is a writer, poet, multi-disciplinary artist and literary translator. She was a winner of the Golden Point Award 2025, and has served as a judge of the Bai Meigui Translation Competition. Her writing has been featured in Oyster River Pages, Best New Singaporean Short Stories, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Eunoia Review and This is Southeast Asia. She was co-editor of Singapore in the Eyes of Mother Artists. Raised in East Sussex, United Kingdom, Amanda lived in Taiwan for seven years before returning to her birthplace, Singapore, where she currently resides. When she’s not busy conjuring up new ideas, you can find her moonlighting as a librarian at Casual Poet Library.

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