Stewart Manley is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. His poetry has appeared in Queen’s Quarterly, the Dalhousie Review, New Writing: The Internatioal Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Anesthesiology and Southeast Asian Review of English, and hybrid pieces (poetry + self-reflection + academic analysis) in Equity & Excellence in Education, International Journal for Academic Development, and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. ‘Happy Thoughts’ is his first published short story. Links to his creative and academic work can be found at stewartmanley.com