Jeremy Tiang

Jeremy Tiang is a writer, translator, and playwright from Singapore who lives in Flushing, Queens. He has translated more than twenty books from Chinese, most recently Shuang Xuetao’s Rouge Street. His novel State of Emergency won the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction in English.

Illustration of a woman on a diving platform blowing a whistle while a dolphin sticks its head out of the water, by Jia Sung

Fiction The Filth issue

Bottlenose

By Shuang Xuetao

In the afternoon, there’s an incident at the aquarium. The attendants overfill the pool, and during the feeding session, a few of the piranhas manage to leap ashore.