AWA WRITERS’ BLOCK
Reinventing Vietnam: An Expat Experience Written By: Laura Dahan Two years ago, my family landed in Singapore as expats, anticipating a bit of adventure and cultural growth. We had no…
WRITER’S BLOCK
LUNACY Written by Helena Antolin Cochrane Image by Junior Peres Junior through Pixabay photo sharing site. Free sharing of images. Moonrise, luscious and dramatic, is a spellbinding sight. If you…
AWA WRITER’S BLOCK: MAY/JUNE
Writer's Block is a monthy contribution from our AWA Writers' Group members. Encounter Written by Amanda Jaffe She could always sense his presence before seeing him. She’d struggle to maintain…
Writers’ Block: March/April
VIRTUAL POSSIBILITIES By Christin Gustafson Recently I made my first deposit into a Singaporean bank, a check for $0.15. Why would I bother depositing a 15-cent check? Because the issuing…
Writers’ Block
A True Singapore Story: The Battle of the Breastpump By Dulce Zamora When I was pregnant with my first child and new to Singapore in 2007, I combed books and…
Writers’ Block: Hot Commodity
Hot Commodity By Stephanie Suga Chen Upon arrival at our Airbnb unit, the kids started unpacking and squabbling over storage space while I checked out the kitchen. Opening the…
Writers’ Block: July
Hiraeth By Laura Jane O’Gorman Schwartz but on a future page, I write hiraeth, letters straddled by blank lines, storks in a lake sky white, black feet in the danger…
Writers’ Block: June
The Cursed Bag By Stephanie Suga Chen “A $300 value!” the credit card promotion had declared. Made of carbon fiber and able to spin freely 360-degrees around, the sleek…
Writers’ Block: May
Salvage By Laura Schwartz The paper moon sleeps in a notebook above a massacre of pen caps (gnawed) and mislaid chunks of words which weren’t evacuated with the mouths that,…