Posts by Mahak Singhal

Sarah Martinez had been on the waiting list for affordable housing for three years. Every morning, she'd drive past empty lots in her neighborhood, wondering when someone would finally break…

Last Tuesday night, I found myself standing in my bedroom doorway at 11 PM, holding a small bundle of dried bay leaves and wondering if my neighbor had finally lost…

Sarah stared at her kettle in horror last Tuesday morning. What started as a routine coffee run before work had turned into something resembling an archaeological dig. White flakes bobbed…

Sarah Chen had always laughed when her archaeology professor talked about "game-changing discoveries." After three years of cataloguing pottery shards and measuring foundation stones, she figured the really big finds…

Dr. Sarah Chen had been studying Arctic marine life for fifteen years, but nothing prepared her for the moment she watched a massive orca breach just meters from her research…

Erik Olsen pulled his boat into Nuuk harbor at dawn, his hands still shaking from what he'd witnessed. After thirty years of fishing these waters, he thought he'd seen everything…

Maria checks her phone one more time as she waits for the delayed flight to Frankfurt. Three hours sitting in uncomfortable plastic chairs, watching rain streak the terminal windows. Her…

Margaret sits in her favorite armchair, the one her late husband bought in 1962, watching her daughter pace the living room with a stack of retirement home brochures. "Mom, you…

Last Tuesday evening, my neighbor knocked on my door holding a steaming mug that smelled like Christmas morning mixed with a health food store. Her eyes were bright, almost evangelical.…

Margaret winced as she lowered herself into the restaurant booth, gripping the table edge with white knuckles. Her daughter watched, concerned, as what used to be a simple movement now…