short story

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 […]

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

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 written my first short story. This wasn’t planned. I’ve been carrying around a notebook for years, filling it with observations from my nail work and marketing job, never quite sure what to do with all these fragments. Then last week, sitting in a café near campus, I started writing about Nadya, a Russian student