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An image from the lockdown in Kuala Lumpur featuring Civil Defence personnel delivering food for quarantined guests at a hotel. Photo: The Star/Azhar Mahfof Conspiracy theories, frontliners and marginalised communities. The healing power of a garden. A trek through the mystical Sarawak highlands. And a nine-year old’s first encounter with death. These may all seem like very disparate topics, but they are all united by one theme. They are all pandemic-era stories in The Lockdown Chronicles,an anthology of 19 fictional works in Malaysia. The book, edited by Shireen Zainudin and Viji Krishnamoorthy, offers a glimpse into new Malaysian realities in the past year. ....