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by Vicky Chong (Author)
This collection of short stories exposes the minuscule rebels trapped inside many of us - the obedient, law-abiding tenants - living in Singapore who are trying to break out of conforming to the country's conservative social norms, risking stigma and gossip. On one extreme, a minority of us have the courage to let the recalcitrant rebels take charge from the beginning in order to live as we wish. Others may require some external nudging to act, yet some may ultimately still retreat to the status quo, to a prescribed acceptable social behaviour, instead of risking any fracas.
Author Biography
Vicky Chong graduated with Master of Arts - Creative Writing at Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore in September 2018. Her works have been published in Readers' Digest, The Graduate and Singapore Marketer. Her creative non-fiction stories were published in two anthologies by Singapore's National Library Board. Her short story, Chun Kia, was one of the ten selected for 2017 George Town literary Festival Fringe Publication The Zine. Another short story 'The Uber Driver' won third prize in the 2018 Nick Joaquin Literary Awards Asia-Pacific.
