Posts by Mahak Singhal

Sarah stares at her smart thermostat display showing 19°C, then glances at her 8-year-old daughter wrapped in a blanket doing homework at the kitchen table. "Mom, I can't feel my…

Dr. Sarah Chen had been studying snakes for fifteen years, but her hands still trembled as she approached what looked like a fallen tree trunk. The remote valley in South…

Captain Maria Santos still remembers the moment she realized something was wrong. Flying her cargo plane over the South China Sea in 2012, she glanced down at her navigation charts,…

Sarah stared at her kitchen sink, watching the greasy water from last night's dinner dishes refuse to drain. The pasta water had seemed harmless enough when she poured it down,…

Margaret sits on the edge of her bed at 7 AM, staring at the bathroom door. At 68, what used to be her favorite morning routine now feels like planning…

Margaret always prided herself on her daily shower routine. Every morning at 7 AM sharp, she'd step into her bathroom, turn the water to its hottest setting, and scrub away…

Last Tuesday at the coffee shop, I watched something that made me put down my phone. Two women in their seventies sat at the corner table, completely absorbed in conversation.…

Sarah stared at her energy bill for the third time that morning, feeling that familiar knot in her stomach tighten. £180 for October alone, and winter hadn't even properly started.…

At 3 AM last Thursday, Maria found herself in the bathroom mirror again. This time wasn't different from the dozens before—except for the exhaustion in her eyes. Not from lack…

Sarah opened her freezer and stared at the foil-wrapped baguette from three weeks ago. What once promised to be tomorrow's perfect breakfast now looked like a silver torpedo of regret.…