PJ Confidential features a collection of short stories that examine the darker side of Petaling Jaya. Photo: Filepic
Growing up in Subang Jaya, Selangor, I always considered myself a Petaling Jaya girl as it wasn’t until 1997 that my hometown became a municipality of its own. As such, I was quite looking forward to checking out this latest city-specific short story anthology from Fixi Novo that centres on “my” town. I was also looking forward to the noir-type stories that the title, PJ Confidential, led me to anticipate.
I could recognise many of the PJ-related inspirations behind the stories. For example, we have any town’s unwanted animal residents – rats and stray dogs – represented in the first two stories, Angeline Woon’s The Rats of SS2 and Stray by Linges. Unfortunately for my noir expectations, though they did have a bit of a mystery to them, they were primarily supernaturally influenced stories. That was the case for most of the other stories.
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