Singapore salvation

68 Pages·2015·3.32 MB·English

by  Jennifer Burge

Table of Contents
Prologue
Transplanted
The Koi Pond
Will the Real Singapore
Please Step Forward?
Cracks in the Surface
Dramatis Personae
The Face in the Mirror
The Third New Year
Soul Seeker
The Rat Races In
Space Invasion
Lion City
One Night in Bangkok
Déjà Vu
Party Games
Upside Down Under
Superiority Complex
Flying the Coop
Sleepwalking in Tokyo
Miscellaneous Melbourne
“Home”
Forbidden
Dragon’s Bite
Hobbies
Pilgrim
Taboo
Epiphany
Dreaming in Vietnamese
Thai Treats
Bridges
Aftershock
Author’s Note
SINGAPORE SALVATION
SINGAPORE SALVATION

Jennifer Burge

WORLDWISE PUBLICATIONS
Queensland, Australia
SINGAPORE SALVATION
Copyright © Jennifer Burge, 2015
All rights reserved.

ISBNs:
Print: 978-0-9942449-2-5
EBook: 978-0-9942449-3-2

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For my husband

The road less traveled has had a higher toll than we expected,
but I wouldn’t have taken it with anyone else.
Prologue

Skyscrapers swayed like palm fronds in a sea breeze. Fear paralyzed me.
Standing was out of the question. I had a death grip on a railing that wasn’t
there. My head swam as if I’d swilled a bottle of vodka. No one made a sound,
but the tropical air was thick with fear and trepidation. It defied reason that the
massive weight of concrete and steel dipped like a tango dancer without
crashing to the ground and taking all of us with it. But it didn’t. It just continued
to give me close ups of the pavement before flinging me back toward the angry
gray green sky.