''Let Me Tell You Something About That Night'' is a short-story collection by the Singaporean poet
Cyril Wong. His first published foray into prose and listed by
The Straits Times
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as among the best five books of the year, described by the reviewer as possessing "the sharp bite of contemporary issues", the book "takes fairytales and works them into a surreal lustre" and "gestures to a time before fairytales were saccharine fantasies", while a few stories also deal openly with sexuality: "The Boy with the Flower That Grew out of His Ass is a fable of wounding poignancy about homophobia; The Queen & Her Eventual Knowledge of Love is a post-mortem coming-out story."
[''The Age'', 29 August 2009.]
See also
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Singapore gay literature
This article deals with writing that deals with LGBT themes in a Singapore context. It covers literary works of fiction, such as novels, short stories, plays and poems. It also includes non-fiction works, both scholarly and targeted at the general ...
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Cyril Wong
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LGBT culture in Singapore
Literature based on fairy tales
2009 short story collections
Singaporean short story collections