Posts by Mahak Singhal

It was 9:47 PM when I stumbled through my apartment door, bag sliding off my shoulder and keys clattering onto the kitchen counter. The day had been one of those…

Sarah stared at her computer screen, cursor blinking in the empty email draft. She'd been sitting there for three minutes, but her mind was still replaying the morning's budget meeting.…

Sarah noticed it first on a Tuesday morning. She was making toast when her phone buzzed with a work message, and suddenly her shoulders were somewhere near her ears. The…

Sarah was halfway through her evening commute when she noticed the change. What started as light flurries during her lunch break had transformed into something entirely different. The snowflakes weren't…

Sarah first noticed it during her lunch break downtown. An elderly gentleman in a navy coat was walking slowly along the sidewalk, hands clasped behind his back, eyes focused somewhere…

Sarah pulled into her driveway just as the first snowflakes began to fall. They looked innocent enough—soft, fat flakes drifting down like something from a holiday card. She grabbed her…

Sarah Martinez pulled her coat tighter as she stepped out of the Chicago Metro station, the bitter wind hitting her face like needles. The digital display board behind her flickered…

Sarah had been checking her phone every five minutes, watching the little airplane icon on her flight tracker app. Her sister's wedding was tomorrow morning in Minneapolis, and she was…

Maria watched her 12-year-old son pace the living room, hands clasped firmly behind his back. He'd been walking like this for ten minutes, muttering math formulas under his breath before…

Sarah Martinez was grabbing her morning coffee in downtown Chicago when her phone buzzed with an emergency alert she'd never seen before. "PREPARE FOR EXTENDED EXTREME COLD EVENT - STOCK…