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English Literature | Showcase
Written Projects
​Let’s jump into a world full of imagination with our short story project! These stories were created by talented English Literature students, each bringing their own style, ideas, and creativity to the table. With different uniqueness and freshness perspectives, our teams worked together to shape this collection of stories and we’re excited to share the results with you!
Class A
Nailah Salsabila Prasetya Putri
Special Eateries in Indonesia Culinary Culture
This book explores traditional food places in Indonesia like angkringan and warung Padang. It shows how these spots go beyond eating, reflecting local traditions, social life, and identity, and showing how food connects people and culture across the country.
Kartika Afrinda
The Forgotten River
Polluted rivers and suffocating fumes are the familiar backdrop of our modern lives. Yet for Wira, a guardian from an ancient land, they are a horrifying discovery. He embarks on a journey into a seemingly glamorous but dark reality, seeking to uncover its secrets to save his dying home.
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Katarina Rosa Aprilia
It’s Not That Deep: Learning to Chill and Let Things Go
This book is a gentle guide for anyone overwhelmed by pressure or overthinking. With a friendly tone, it encourages slowing down, letting go of perfection, and living lighter. Through relatable reflections, the book reminds readers they’re doing better than they think.​
Anindya Mulya Mariska
The Secrets Behind the Window
A hidden mystery disrupts ordinary school life, drawing three friends into an unsettling secret. Their loyalty and instincts guide them as they face creeping dangers and unexpected truths. With each discovery, their bond strengthens—even as the path ahead grows darker and more uncertain.
​Fajar Kusuma Wardhani
​The Ghost Cat Is Now A Ghost Guy!
​In college, Ki meets a strange cat who is actually Dan, a guardian spirit sent to help her. After failed exorcisms, a quirky modern dukun, and a ghost-camera surprise, this horror-comedy explores isolation, faith, and finding support in unexpected places.
Herawati Putri
​Eulogies of the Coffees
Eight people carry their own stories of love, loss, and grief—until fate brings them together. Their shared pain becomes a bridge, turning sorrow into connection. This is a story of healing, understanding, and how collective grief can create unexpected, meaningful bonds.
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Muhammad Surya Hammami
A World (Torn) Apart
​This is a story about a teen living in a cramped, kinda gross apartment in a space colony, always daydreaming about ditching the mess that’s her home. Being super lazy and annoyed with everything, but they drag themselves to school anyway, hoping someday that things and her life would change for the better.
Satria Bagus Rhyan Dhyta
​Holding On
​Holding On follows five friends whose easy boat trip becomes a fight for survival after a sudden storm strands them on an unknown island. As they search for resources and rescue, the story explores fear, hope, friendship, and the emotional weight of uncertain days.
Muhammad Rasyad Kinara Putra
​For God’s Sake, I’m Not a Writer!
A struggling student writer races a deadline in a playful tale mixing darkly comic murder attempts, time-travel magic, nostalgic friendships, and movie love letters. Through doubt, procrastination, and wild daydreams, the story gently asks what it means to grow up and begin again.
Muhammad Izzudin Al Azzam
The Days I Write About You
A bored convenience store cashier chasing his dream of becoming a writer meets a mysterious girl who flips his world upside down. As late-night talks turn into something deeper, her sudden disappearance forces him to question love, purpose, and the life he thought he wanted.
Class A
Zafaf Husna Amalia
Blood That Condemns All and Other Stories
Four stories. Four wounds. One author unafraid to unveil what we bury. In A Note from Nowhere, Imperfect Bread, Blood That Condemns All, and White Shirt, Zafaf explores loneliness, grief, family secrets, and quiet violence—revealing the moments that shape us when no one is watching.
Firdausi Khoirunnisa
When the Heart Learns Again
Some of the deepest changes in our lives come from a simple truth. Someone we trusted chooses to hurt us. When love and trust turn into betrayal, we have no choice but to slowly learn how to stand again. When The Heart Learns Again follows the quiet feelings we hide and the small steps we take to feel whole once more. This is Keira’s journey, written as part of a series of stories by Firdausi Khoirunnisa.
Gesit Nurdin Darmawan
Deconstructive Stories of Indonesian Folklores
These retellings folklores are not about good or evil, but about the fragile line between them. Here, gods speak in algorithms, children inherit fear, and love grows from the ruins of belief. In the space between myth and memory, these stories ask, What remains when the meaning collapses, and the tale starts telling itself?
Class A
Class B
​Putri Chitra Pertiwi
We Fell Out of Love in August
A story of love, heartbreak, and letting go, following two people who once meant everything to each other. It explores how love isn’t always enough, the quiet ache of moving on, the ways people change, heal, and carry memories long after everything ends.
Nazwa Salsabilah
Hi, Meet Tsu
What if you hold something more powerful than money? Tsuki holds something that can turn her from powerless to beyond power. She can get anything from working inside the shadows. But what if something cruelly traumatizing happened to her while on a mission? Is it the end of everything, including her life?
Rara Olga Puspa Arum
Whisper Beneath The Mist
In the ever-misty world of Hallowmist lives Lizze, a small fairy simply learning to exist between light and shadow. This soft fantasy follows her gentle journey through loss, balance, and quiet magic as she slowly becomes more than she ever believed possible.
Salima Ihda Ulinuha
The History and Culture of Bangkle
​This bilingual book reveals Bangkle’s rich universe of stories—from its mystical origins and Ki Soero Dirono’s legacy to Sedekah Bumi and Barongan Bangkle. Across nine chapters, it brings alive myths, rituals, and ancestral voices that preserve the village’s enduring cultural heritage.
​Isnaeni Nur Syahputri
Love, Literally: A Collection of Stories About Love, Loss, and the Choices We Make
​Love, is an eight-story collection that turns common love idioms into dark, literal scenarios. Each story shows how love can heal, break, twist, or transform people in unexpected ways. It’s fast to read, emotionally sharp, and offers a fresh spin on familiar themes.
​Muhammad Ihsan Fiqri Haykal
An Eternal Nightmare
​After tragedy shatters their family, Gona’s ambition drags him into a criminal empire while Harsya’s grief pulls her into a toxic relationship with a dealer. As betrayal sparks a violent war, the siblings face ruin—and the question of whether redemption is still possible.
Monica Aurel Ananda​
​Past and Future
Past and Future follows Heaven, a young woman who begins receiving letters addressed to “mom” from a daughter who doesn’t exist—yet. As their correspondence crosses time, each letter unravels mystery, longing, and the unexpected bond forming between two lives not meant to meet.
Anisa Permata Zahira
A CLICHÉ LOVE STORY, BUT PERHAPS IT WAS OURS
Inspired by personal experience, this story follows Allysa and Zane—two dreamers navigating trust, tenderness, and ambition as a research-driven dating-app encounter unexpectedly grows into a complicated yet heartfelt journey toward love.
