Silverfish Books decided to release this volume to commemorate the fifth year of the Silverfish New Writing series, and also due to popular requests for an anthology of entirely Malaysian Short Stories. Nesa Sivagnanam has read through all the Malaysian stories (and plays and scripts) in Silverfish New Writing 1-5 and picked out her favourites. This is not a critical choice but more a reader's choice. She says she had fun doing it. We are sure you will have fun reading the book.