WOMAN

A short story by  Nur Alfillail

Written in 2020 as a final project of Prose Fiction Course

English Language Education Department,

Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

 

Is being born a woman a disaster? If so, may I die and be reborn as a man? I asked the wind, rain, night, trees, even ants who were looking for a piece of fortune from God "why should woman?". Of course you haven't forgotten in the Jahiliyah era, newborn girls who were still red were buried alive. Innocent little girls are considered a disgrace and do not deserve to live in the world.

Chase Me

A short story by  Prawoto Satryo Durakim

Written in 2020 as a final project of Prose Fiction Course

English Language Education Department,

Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

 

What do you know about dream? Dream will come in our asleep, not all of us but sometimes or everyday it will come. Dream is a big world that we do not know how can it produce. It going to be bad or happy. It depends with our feeling, it just a statement. Dream comes to people not only the rich one, but all people can feel the dream itself. Dream sometimes make us afraid, dream has a meaning. Do you believe it? Some of you will say yes for this opinion. Dream is only a dream, your beautiful memory while asleep. There is no one can beat your dream except yourself. Do not be scary of your dream, cause you are ghosted by your dream. Accept or leave is your choice to confront your life.

The Predicament of our Monkey Brain

           

A short story by  Ketut Bayu Catur Paramahita

Written in 2020 as a final project of Prose Fiction Course

English Language Education Department,

Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

                Average. Average is the first thing that would come to anyone’s mind when they first saw this man’s face. Curly black hair, forgettable face, generic sense of fashion. Not a single thing stood out except for the bandage in his wrist. The blood had dried, and it must have been new. It was still white and clean.

                His record wasn’t any different. It was perfectly average, too. Nothing stood out. No record of abuse, no record of criminal activity, and no noteworthy achievement, either.  He was an average man, an average student, living an average school life. About the only thing that stood out was his suicide attempt 3 days ago, and now he’s here, in my office, looking at me with that stupid half-smile.

Martin

 

                

A short story by Putu Arya Wira Suputra

Written in 2020 as a final project of Prose Fiction Course

English Language Education Department,

Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

                                                                              

The table is full of fancy feast while the members of Rainbow Seven celebrating their victory against the brutality of Kelomelompik. They successfully conquer a new territory from their arch rival thanks to their astonishing leadership by Rainbow Seven leader Martin Bluford also known as his professional name Blue. He then starts to give a speech to his fellow comrade.

THE MADAM GOLD

A short story by Putu Ega Meliani

Written in 2020 as a final project of Prose Fiction Course

English Language Education Department,

Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

 

            She is still leaning on the backyard bench as usual, as she did every day. She is wearing a knit shirt and a scarf that was neatly attached to her neck. She is not strong enough to withstand the cold air of this season, nor could she withstand the coldness of the world to herself. Page after page of the book she read, my grandma liked those romance fiction stories collected by my brother in his reading room. Reading one by one book on the shelf of my brother's reading room is like her favorite habit since her memory began to be disrupted. Her nearsighted eyes do not let her read for too long, just around 30 minutes to treat longing and making comfort her days. At precisely 5:30 p.m., after her body is scented with the scent of essential oil which she rubbed on her wrists, she would go behind with her book, she almost did it for seventeen months. She doesn't do it alone, Mersey; the golden cat will always stay by her. I know she gives the cat a necklace with the initial M on it, just like my grandfather's name. But, I should not mention his name in front of my grandma. It is like something taboo to talk about people who have died here. Even though we have not been completely sincere, there are still wounds that have not been treated for his leave.

Misunderstanding

A short story by Made Dian Andita Mastari

Written in 2020 as a final project of Prose Fiction Course

English Language Education Department,

Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha

                Isabella Dockar lived in Paris for about 22 years. She made the decisions to live abroad and far away from her hometown right after her dad’s death because she wanted to make some money overseas. Bella was a hard worker and unyielding woman, every day she worked really hard to feed her family and to give her family in her hometown the best living accommodations. Her neighbors wondered about her decision to not find a good man to be married and build a house hold because everyone knew that she was already 52 years old. One sunny day, Bella was visited by Chloe, her niece that came far away from New York. Chloe planned to live in Bella’s house for several days because she wanted to enjoy the beauty of Paris and surroundings. Chloe knew that she would like to spend several days in her aunt’s house , so she was going to help Bella to do some stuffs in the like helping Bella to go to the grocery store and buy some groceries. In the first day living in Bella’s house, Chloe nicely took Bella and helped Bella o prepared all the delicious traditional meals at that day, but Chloe did not realized the reason behind the big meals prepared by Bella, a 52 years old woman who lived alone in Paris. On the second day, Chloe took Bella to go to her working place. Chloe was directly introduced to El, Mr. Steward’s son right away after she arrived in her working place. There was nothing wrong with that introduction because Chloe thought that was a common thing happened if Bella directly introduced her to El, because they were met in the same office.

Apem tepung beras tanpa tape hanya dengan soda kue

Suka dengan Apem? Biasanya kalau buat apem harus pake tape dan nunggu adonan kembang dulu. Kadang jadi ga sabar, udah pingin ngopi eh apemnya belum jadi. Yuk intip resep apem tanpa tape berikut!

Bahan-bahan:

• tepung beras 200 gr
• tepung terigu 3 sdm (boleh di skip)
• telur 1 buah
• gula pasir 100 gr
• gula bali 50 gram (boleh di skip)
• soda kue
• air cuka 2 sdt (dicampurkan ke dalam 1/2 gelas air). kalau ga punya cuka, ganti dengan air perasan lemon  atau susu cair karena keduanya bisa mengaktifkan baking soda)
• baking powder (boleh skip)
• keju lembaran satu lembar (boleh di skip)
• garam 1 sdt
• margarin 2 sdm
• vanili 1/4 sdt
• air 1/2 gelas