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The Ghost in the HDB Server Room
A tech founder races to launch Singapore’s first AIdriven public housing optimiser — but when the system starts predicting deaths in HDB flats before they happen, he realises the colonialera power grid still whispers through the wires, and someone in his team is silencing its warnings.
The Last Herbalist of Tiong Bahru
A exmilitary medic turned digital nomad must barter healing herbs with a rival healer to survive a city where digital implants now drain lifeforce — and the only cure grows in the ruins of old kampong soil.
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.
Ghost of the HDB
A superstitious auntie’s warning leads a young man to confront a haunted public flat, where filial duty clashes with survival in a postapocalyptic Singapore.
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.
The Ghost Who Took My NS ID
A rebellious teen hiding in an HDB flat after testifying against a cop’s murder witnesses his neighbour’s wall weep blood — and realises the ghost isn’t haunting the building. It’s waiting for him to finish his National Service.
The Ghost Who Ate His Name
A returned overseas Chinese returns to preindependence Singapore with a British education and a silence he cannot explain — only to find his own family’s ancestral spirit haunting their new HDB flat, demanding he speak the old tongue or vanish like the kampong they buried.
The Ghost Who Signed His NS Papers
A former Ah Beng gangster returns to his HDB estate after the War, only to find the buildings whispering conscripts’ names — and his own name among them, signed in blood.
The Ghost Who Paid His NS Debt
A exah beng turns ghost after dying in a kampong fire, but his spirit can’t rest until he repays his National Service dues — because in this world, the dead still owe the state.
The Ghost Who Wanted My NS Uniform
A rebellious teen fakes a relationship with a ghost to avoid National Service—until the spirit starts demanding his ration cards and complains about the HDB lift being slow.
Ghost in the HDB
A Grab driver uncovers a supernatural rift in his estate, forcing him to confront the past and the kiasu spirit that haunts his family.
The O-Level Ghost Who Stole Answers
A kiasu teen hacks the national exam system by summoning a colonialera spirit bound to answer sheets — until the Ministry’s new rule turns his cheat into a death sentence.
Mama’s Ghosts in Block 43
A conscript’s return to his HDB estate unravels his mother’s secret pact with the land — where the dead still collect rent, and love means breaking the rules that keep the neighbourhood alive.
Mother’s Scorecard
A boy steals exam answers to please his mother, but the cheating system backfires when the school’s new surveillance tech exposes not just his fraud — but her secret debt to a ghost ledger.
The Ghost Who Paid His Rent in Kueh
A retired civil servant uncovers his late wife’s secret payments to a HDB ghost — not to appease spirits, but to buy time for their daughter’s education. When the landlord demands back rent, the truth rises with the moonlight.
The Clock That Ate His Mother’s Tears
A boy trapped in a HDB flat’s broken grandfather clock relives his mother’s final examnight breakdown — but each rewind steals a year of her life, forcing him to choose between passing his OLevels or letting her live.
Ghost Stall at Block 17
A hawker stall owner swaps places with a ghostly vendor during the blackout of 1948, forced to confront a hidden debt from the Japanese Occupation—while his real body lies unconscious in the HDB basement.
The Maid Who Forgot How to Cry
A Japanese nurse hired to care for a dying excolonial officer forgets her own past — until the HDB flats around her begin whispering in Malay, Chinese, and Tamil, remembering what the state erased.
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.
Auntie Mui’s Ghost Rice and the NS Boy Who Ate It
After the War, the HDB flats still smell of burnt joss paper and whispered curses. When a conscripted boy eats cursed rice meant for the dead, he wakes up speaking Malay, Chinese, and Tamil—all at once. His auntie says it’s the spirits bargaining. His two girlfriends? They’re not happy.
