Shuang Xuetao

Shuang Xuetao is a writer from Shenyang who lives in Beijing. He has written six volumes of fiction, for which he has won the Blossoms Literary Prize, the Wang Zengqi Short Story Prize, and, most recently, the Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize for the best Chinese writer under forty-five. His first book to appear in English, Rouge Street (translated by Jeremy Tiang), was published by Metropolitan Books in April 2022.

Woman in a blue swimsuit blowing a whistle on a red cord while surfing on a dolphin's belly

Fiction The Filth issue

宽吻

By Shuang Xuetao

The original Chinese version of Shuang Xuetao’s short story “Bottlenose,” which appears in the Filth issue.

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.