Welcome to the second issue of Peril – themed “Heroes”.
We certainly have got a diverse range to offer you this time around, from the Vox Pop that Tseen has composed exploring people’s ideas on heroes, to individual musings on people’s personal heroes, a sound recording of ninjas and lots of poetry!
We have touching pieces by Helen Huynh on her mother, Phillip Tang on his father and Leslie Cheung, and a piece dedicated to the late Lisa Bellear to name a few. We are also privileged to be publishing scenes two …

Recording of AIYO!!! An evil group of ninjas is entering and destroying a call centre!!!

When I first thought about contributing something for this issue of Peril, I did it with an eye towards amalgamating nifty pop culture moments and oh-so-clever intertextual references involving KITT, MacGyver and Fu Manchu.

One of my role models… encounters with Lisa Bellear

I was very young when my obsession started; sparked by the cartoon version, it intensified with the television series. Every weekend I’d be rendered speechless from the first bars of the intro to the closing credits as I watched in awe, stretched out flat on my belly on the lounge room floor.

A poem of word, monologue and dialogue. A poem of movement, song and music. It is a poem of performance. Yellow is not Yellow is about myself and is not about myself. It is about my friends but it is not really about my friends.
It is about life and death and it is not about life and death at all.

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My father had this sixth sense. He knew when people would die.

Hero  /’hɪəroʊ‘/  n  -roes 1 heroine  /’ˈhɛroʊɪn’/fem. – a someone who is admired for their bravery, goodness, or great ability, esp. someone who has performed an act of great courage under very dangerous conditions: a war hero.

eh! the plane! the plane!