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The Last Stolen Kueh
A young NS recruit steals a family heirloom kueh from a haunted HDB kitchen to prove he’s not a coward — but the thing remembers who cooked it.
The Last Tuition Lesson at Bukit Timah
A retired tuition teacher returns to his old HDB flat to collect unpaid fees from an expat family, only to find the house haunted by memories of colonialera displacement — and a rule no one dares break after midnight.
The Scholar and the Spirit
A student unravels a hidden world beneath the HDB flats, where ancestral spirits demand sacrifice for academic success, forcing him to choose between tradition and modernity.
The Last Kueh Lapis of Kampong Gelam
A former Ah Beng enforces a banned colonial curfew to protect a MalayChinese baker’s last batch of kueh lapis — until the recipe becomes the only thing holding his community together.
The Ghost Who Signed My Promotion
A young clerk in a 1950s colonial office survives Japanese occupation only to be blocked from promotion by his own father’s rigid code — until a whispering shadow in the records room starts signing his name on forms no one else can touch.
The Ghost Who Collected Rent in Block 43
A conscripted boy owes a debt to a dead woman who haunts his HDB stairwell — and every unpaid night makes the walls bleed rust.
The Scholarship That Broke the HDB Wall
A scholarship boy from a Kampong kitchen learns love is a curfew violation in postOccupation Singapore—where colonial rules still haunt HDB stairwells and crossing racial lines means losing everything.
Mother’s Rice Bowl and the Ghosts of Pasir Ris
A conscripted boy carries his mother’s last cooked meal into the jungle barracks—only to find the military’s hazing ritual demands he feed it to a spirit that eats silence. The rule: no food left untouched. The cost: his voice, his fear, his mother’s hope.
Ghost in the HDB
A feng shui master navigates corporate sabotage and supernatural forces in a 1950s Singapore, where wealth inequality and colonial ghosts collide.
The Last Ride to Kampong Glam
A MalayChinese grab driver in 1958 Singapore carries a stranger to a blind date—only to discover the passenger is his late brother’s fiancée, now returned from Java with a secret that rewrites his family’s silence under colonial rule.
