Posts by Mahak Singhal

Sarah stared at her phone screen in the supermarket car park, the notification glowing against the swirling white flakes. "Heavy snow warning in effect - travel not advised after 10…

Sarah stood in her kitchen last Tuesday night, staring at a roll of aluminium foil like it held the secrets of the universe. Her dinner party was in an hour,…

Sarah Chen stepped outside her Denver apartment last Tuesday morning, expecting the usual February bite. Instead, she found herself in a 65-degree morning that felt more like April. By Thursday,…

Picture this: you're settling into your train seat for what should be a peaceful journey across the Indian countryside, when suddenly passengers start pointing and screaming. There, coiled beneath a…

Sarah Martinez still remembers the day her daughter asked why it takes so long to visit grandma in Europe. "Can't they just build a bridge?" the eight-year-old wondered, drawing lines…

Sarah sits at her kitchen table, mindlessly stirring her coffee, when it happens again. The face of her college boyfriend flashes through her mind with startling clarity. Not the breakup.…

Margaret stared at the letter for the third time that morning, her reading glasses sliding down her nose. The official envelope had arrived two weeks ago, buried between grocery store…

Sarah Martinez was folding laundry when the news alert popped up on her phone. The band that played at her wedding twenty-three years ago had just announced their retirement. She…

Sarah Chen bundled up in three layers of winter gear before stepping out of her Toronto hotel room. She'd driven six hours through a blizzard to see something her grandmother…

Maria Gonzalez was eight years old when her grandmother woke her up at 4 AM on a summer morning in 1999. "Mija, today you will see something that happens maybe…