Posts by Mahak Singhal

Last weekend, I watched my dad struggle for ten minutes trying to type his Netflix password using the TV remote. Arrow key by arrow key, he slowly pecked out each…

Maria Rodriguez stared at the computer screen in her Madrid energy office, watching satellite images of the Sahara Desert scroll past. Her colleagues had just pitched what seemed like the…

Maria Popescu stares across the Prut River from her small apartment in Chisinau, watching Romanian flags flutter in the distance. At 34, she speaks both Romanian and Russian fluently, carries…

Last February, my neighbor Sarah stood in her backyard staring at her apple tree with a look of pure frustration. The previous autumn had delivered exactly seven apples from what…

Sarah Martinez stood in her kitchen last January, staring at her gas bill in disbelief. £340 for one month. Her 1950s semi-detached house felt like a money pit, bleeding heat…

Sarah noticed something was wrong when she found the third robin lying motionless beneath her bird feeder last January. The small body looked perfect – no obvious injuries, just still…

Sarah stared at her thermostat, shivering in her cardigan despite the display showing exactly 19°C. For the third time that evening, she resisted the urge to bump it up a…

I still remember the first time my mother placed that bowl in front of me on a grey October evening. Steam curled up from what looked like liquid sunshine, and…

Sarah opened her freezer last Tuesday morning, reaching past frozen peas and ice cream to grab what she thought was her emergency breakfast bread. The loaf had been there for…

Last Christmas morning, Sarah Williams found herself in an all-too-familiar scene. Her sister was frantically rolling pastry while juggling a crying toddler, flour dusting every surface of the kitchen. The…