Singapore Stories

I’m looking up at the Departures board along with everyone else around me. It’s like we are all praying, or perhaps watching the numbers at the stock exchange. Hope and despair, always hope and despair. We watch as slowly, inexorably, the status info for each flight is rolled over to ‘DELAYED’, until the whole board tells the same story: ‘DELAYED, DELAYED, DELAYED’. People’s reactions are varied—one guy in a good suit tur...

Sheila didn’t plan on being out that Friday night. She'd had a long week pitching PR campaigns to men who still called her “darling” in meetings, and all she wanted was wine, Netflix, and a good face mask. But the city skyline shimmered in that sultry way that whispered, “You’re 28, not 80,” so she slipped into a slinky emerald dress and heels that said, “Don’t waste my time.” She ended up at Sapphire Room, a rooftop nigh...