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Ending the year with a good surprise. Thank you @lostballoon.bsky.social
We are happy to announce our nominees for this year’s Best Microfiction anthology!!!! Vic Nogay: @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social, Carol M. Quinn, Titi Kusumandari, Michael Nickels-Wisdom, and Nicole Desjardins Gowdy!
December 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Ending the year with a good surprise. Thank you @lostballoon.bsky.social
'On a Tuesday not so long ago, he had told her, “See you! Be back at four.” But left life at ten-thirty. He lived to teach. He died while teaching. And that was that.'
A week in my life, written: chestnutreview.com/titi-kusuman...
A week in my life, written: chestnutreview.com/titi-kusuman...
Titi Kusumandari, How Was Your Week? – Chestnut Review
I started writing to make sense of a week that I could not explain. When a simple, “How was your week?” question was unanswerable. The piece became a study of mourning, mediated by rituals, class, technology, and grazing goats.
chestnutreview.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
'On a Tuesday not so long ago, he had told her, “See you! Be back at four.” But left life at ten-thirty. He lived to teach. He died while teaching. And that was that.'
A week in my life, written: chestnutreview.com/titi-kusuman...
A week in my life, written: chestnutreview.com/titi-kusuman...
One of my fondest memory in uni, is this tukang nasi goreng who kept on cooking fried rice below our window. So here's the saga: fiftywordstories.com/2025/10/13/t...
TIT KUSUMANDARI: Two Portions of Fried Rice, Please
Across his shoulder pole hung rice, eggs, condiments, and a stove. He’d stop beneath our student windows to sauté some garlic, to let its scent slip inside the rooms. We cursed his tricks, swore to…
fiftywordstories.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
One of my fondest memory in uni, is this tukang nasi goreng who kept on cooking fried rice below our window. So here's the saga: fiftywordstories.com/2025/10/13/t...
A new piece in Pr&ta journal, a tale on rejecting normalized workplace anxiety: www.pratajournal.com/re-i-hope-th...
October 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
A new piece in Pr&ta journal, a tale on rejecting normalized workplace anxiety: www.pratajournal.com/re-i-hope-th...
I am delighted that my piece was published in the latest issue of Anodyne Magazine. Winning reimagined in a patchwork of scars, blood, and medical tape.
Anodyne Vol.6 is here!
21 #poems, 3 art pieces, 1 essay, 1 creative nonfiction, 1 visual animation, and 1 prose piece --- all FLINTA* voices resisting the “medical gaze” and reclaiming the self.
Guest editor Maria McLeod calls it “a chorus of international voices”
Get your copy anodynemagazine.com
Get your copy anodynemagazine.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I am delighted that my piece was published in the latest issue of Anodyne Magazine. Winning reimagined in a patchwork of scars, blood, and medical tape.
To most of my friends, my love language has been memes and emojis. But in the world-wild-web, I tell random stories about bananas (and grief). Thanks SEA-lit circle for having me there!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Three Missing Bananas by Titi Kusumandari
A short story about grief in the everyday lives of a mother and a daughter.
substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
To most of my friends, my love language has been memes and emojis. But in the world-wild-web, I tell random stories about bananas (and grief). Thanks SEA-lit circle for having me there!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com/home/post/p-...
"We have harvested too much"
Another story about life: porch-litmag.com/not-today-cat/
Another story about life: porch-litmag.com/not-today-cat/
Not Today, Cat - Porch Litmag
by Titi Kusumandari Mother planted a papaya when Anak died. I was seven. She sliced the fruit open, set the seeds aside and dried...
porch-litmag.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"We have harvested too much"
Another story about life: porch-litmag.com/not-today-cat/
Another story about life: porch-litmag.com/not-today-cat/
Reposted
We have a great new piece today from Titi Kusumandari! Check out “The Wins I Can Afford at 40.” lost-balloon.com/2025/07/09/w...
The Wins I Can Afford at 40 by Titi Kusumandari
He slapped me three plastic bullets and a gun. “Aim at the prize,” a toothpick danced between his lips as he spoke. I took the gun and aimed at the sheep doll across the counter. Aim. Hit. Miss. Fr…
lost-balloon.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We have a great new piece today from Titi Kusumandari! Check out “The Wins I Can Afford at 40.” lost-balloon.com/2025/07/09/w...
It's not like writing the very first post is that important. Ok done. :) what's next?
July 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
It's not like writing the very first post is that important. Ok done. :) what's next?