Max Mao

  • The Girl in the Green Atmosphere

    The Girl in the Green Atmosphere

    In the summer of that December, I stood beside you, bare feet, the cold water washed over our ankles as we watched the creeks slither. I was seventeen, and…

  • Unawake

    Unawake

    Another sleepless night. This is my seventeenth sleepless night in a row.  What I’m saying is not insomnia, because I knew that experience from university. I haven’t slept for…

  • The Strange Museum

    The Strange Museum

    The museum looked more hushed than usual. My leather shoes clacked against stripes of timber. The sound spread across the floor, every step that I took felt like stepping…