A Brave Deed Ah, Lan was only fourteen and she was small for her age. Sometimes, her friends used to mock her and say, “you’re going to be a dwarf when you grow up. You’re like a shrimp”. All this used to hurt her, especially...
A Bus Ride I was waiting at the bus stop. I was going to school. As usual, the bus stop was crowded with people from all walks of life. There were office and factory workers going to their places of work. There were older women...
A day spent in strange surroundings I have a cousin, Brian, who is a writer for a newspaper in Kuala Lumpur. Last year when I visited him, he told me that he had an assignment to write about life in a remote village in the...
A Family Outing That Ended in Disaster We had looked forward to the weekend outing for quite some time. All of us had been very busy these last two months. We had been busy with our examinations and Dad had lots of government inspectors and...
A Frightening Experience Malika spent a couple of hours getting dressed up in her finest dress, doing her hair, putting make-up on her face and finally coating her lips with bright red lipstick. She then took her purse and went out. She was going to...
A Ghostly Encounter There are people who believe in ghosts and there are people who don’t. I myself was a skeptic a few years ago. All that changed when I had a paranormal experience one fateful Sunday just a year ago. I had gone to...
A Holiday That Turned Out Wrong It was the eve of National Day in Singapore. My family decided to break the usual routine of watching the national celebrations in Singapore but to visit Batam on National Day. Batam is an island a mere half-hour ferry...
A Journey by Car to A Distant Town When considering the distance a train journey ought to have been preferred, but my family decided this time to go by car. Our family friend offered his Sedan at our service. The car was a well-maintained one...
A Lost Child It was the worst experience of my life. It taught me a lesson I shall never forget. It will not happen again. Kim was only one, pretty as a picture with laughing brown eyes. People would stop and smile, bend over her...
A Narrow Escape There was a huge three-acre pond just a few kilometers from where we stayed. Since moving into our new home in the countryside, my brother, Jim and I used to often sneak out to the pond where we would meet another friend....
