Antipodes was published on The Match Factory, Humanities & Sciences literary magazine of the School of Visual Arts. Feature - Issue 16.

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The story follows Alex, a marine biologist living in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina—the geographical opposite / the antipode of her childhood forest in China. After her father's mysterious death in Antarctica and her mother's loss in a devastating fire, Alex lives with a mythical behemoth that appears sporadically, destroying her home before disappearing for months or years. As she navigates her dual life—mundane scientific work by day and surreal destruction at her home by night—Alex contemplates life's opposites: absence and presence, rationality and madness, the familiar and the unknown. The story explores themes of intergenerational trauma, isolation, and the boundaries between reality and imagination, blending the metaphysical with the visceral through Alex's relationship with this inexplicable creature. Through its magical realist framework, "Antipode" examines how we navigate loss and the monstrous manifestations of grief we carry with us.