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thanks to the great efforts of a handful of my classmates from our hy4227 history module "sources of singaporean history", our short story assignments made it into print! *。ヾ(｡>ｖ<｡)ﾉﾞ*。

the book is available online for reading here : 1927 Singapore

my short story can be found here : Chapter 10. Printed in Black & White

I think it's awesome that my classmates managed to secure funding as part of some kind of SG50 grant to put this into print. it's quite surreal seeing something I wrote in an actual book! /also anthologies ftw cos I think that's my preferred format for writing 'more serious' stuff LOL.

I shall just leave the author's note here as a little tidbit into the premise of the story —

This story was constructed from mainly my own sources and individual topic research into The Straits Times as well as 1927 advertisements. My textual analysis of the various kinds of advertising made me wonder about the fluidity of identity and purpose (the unreliable “4711” narrator), and that “the observer by the mere action of observing influences the experiment”. The latter idea comes out in the ending of the story. Interesting anecdotes told by classmates made their way into this story as well, and especially Clement Xiao’s detailed presentation on the tram system.

all that fanfic-ing paid off academically! ෆ⃛(ٛ⌯ॢ˃ ɪ ˂ٛ⌯ॢ)

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