Stuff
by Hisham Abdullah
Publisher: Pagebayt Publishing (2026)
Language: English
Paperback: 184 pages
ISBN-10: 6299560568
ISBN-13: 978-6299560562
What happens when something is kept instead of released?
A man returns to his hometown. In the mornings he wakes on the sofa in the kampung house and looks up at the ceiling fan. The room stays cool. Pieces of childhood come back.
A glass cabinet of stuffed animals stands in a school corridor. A boy lets go of a cat and learns that release does not end responsibility. A bridge divides what is seen from what is believed. A man orders at a late-night burger stall and is given more than he requested. A walking tour retraces familiar streets, remembered differently. A man in the last nights of Ramadan encounters something that does not leave.
Stuff is not about endings.
The fan keeps turning.
