The book is done. Published. Available. Temporary Access, twelve stories about women navigating borders that exist on passports, screens, and inside consciousness. I finished writing it in October. Spent November wondering if anyone would want to read stories told through chat logs and visa applications. Spent early December checking the proof copies obsessively, finding typos […]
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Over the past year, I’ve shared four short stories here: “The Name on Pinyin,” “Window No. 7,” “Boxes from the East,” and “Chat Survival Manual.” Each explores what happens when people move between cultures, languages, and identities. Those four stories are just the beginning. I’m collecting them, along with several unpublished pieces, into my first
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My fourth story in this series is about Anya, who creates rules for surviving professional chat in a multicultural remote team. Her careful manual helps her navigate cultural differences, but it takes a mistake to teach her that authenticity matters more than perfect performance. This emerged from my own experience working across time zones and
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Walking through Expo 2020 feels like stepping into a fever dream curated by the most ambitious futurists on the planet. I’ve spent three days wandering between pavilions, and my notebook is overflowing with observations. The fashion pavilion stopped me cold. A traditional Japanese kimono woven with smart fibres that respond to the wearer’s heartbeat, projecting
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My third story is about Irina, who works in a London warehouse unpacking products from China. When she finds a hidden note from a factory worker named Meiling, a small act of kindness bridges continents. This emerged from thinking about global supply chains during lockdown, when everything felt both more connected and more isolating than
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Six months ago, I sat on this exact stretch of sand with thirty pages of notes and questions about whether I could actually do this. Today I’m back with two separate projects taking shape: a collection of immigrant stories nearly ready for publication, and 15 pages of a beauty industry manuscript that finally feels real.
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The resignation letter sat in my drafts folder for three weeks before I hit send. Three weeks of staring at those two paragraphs that would officially end my relationship with spreadsheets, quarterly projections, and the peculiar anxiety that comes from watching conversion rates like a hawk. Today marks exactly one month since I walked out
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My second story is about Oksana, a translator at a visa centre who must choose between accurate translation and human compassion. I wrote this after conversations with friends who work as interpreters, who described the impossible position of being simultaneously invisible and all-powerful. The responsibility of choosing which truths to translate and how. Oksana’s chair
I’ve decided to share the stories I’ve been writing. Since October, I’ve completed some pieces exploring what happens when people move between cultures, languages, and identities. These stories are about the small moments that reveal who we are when nobody from home is watching. About finding connection in unexpected places. About the performance of adapting
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The ocean here doesn’t just whisper, it speaks in full sentences. Complex, layered ones that somehow make more sense than most conversations I’ve had in boardrooms this past year. I’m writing this with sand between my toes and salt air filling my lungs, watching the Indian Ocean stretch endlessly before me. The Maldives have this
Dive into my latest novel that explores art meets algorithm in our hyperconnected world. Multilingual storytelling with visual elements—questioning what’s authentic behind perfectly curated facades.
