Some stories only come out at 3am.
Some will make you call your mother. Others will change how you look at the void deck downstairs.
Part me. Part fiction. All love.
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Why 3am?
At 3am the house is quiet. The phone stops buzzing. And the things you spent all day not thinking about finally come and sit beside you.
The father who never said much. The green packet with $2 inside. The plate where the drumstick always landed, and the person who made sure it did.
These are stories about those things. The ones that wake you up and won't let you go back to sleep.
Some are about your mother. Some are about the aunty at the kopitiam who remembers your order. And some are about how this island became what it is.
Facebook forgets a post in a few days.
This place doesn't.
Start with the ones people couldn't stop sharing.
Set in Singapore, and short enough to finish before your teh gets cold.
Four ways in.
- 3am Stories. The quiet ones. Family, regret, and the people we only understood too late.
- Founders. How ordinary people built extraordinary businesses, and what it cost them.
- The Figure. The Singaporeans who shaped this country, seen up close.
- The Origin. Why things are the way they are. The curious history behind the everyday.
My first novel is almost here.
Siew Lan bought a $1,200 dining table in 1985 because she wanted everyone to fit. Forty one years later, everyone fits. But nobody sits.
Got a story that keeps you up at night?
Send it to me. A memory, a person, a moment you've never told anyone. I read every one.
One story a week. Pass it on.
Every week I send one new story you won't find on Facebook. Open it, tap through, and finish it somewhere quiet. Probably at an hour you should be asleep.
3am Stories. Pass it on.