**3. Can you tell us a little about each of the stories in We Rose Up Slowly?**

In the title story, We Rose Up Slowly, as gravity leaks away, a young couple decide whether to follow her parents and rise up slowly.
In Rashid at The Sail, a young man, kicked out of home by his mother, retreats to his brother’s luxury condominium to work out what to do with his life.
In Walking Backwards Up Bukit Timah Hill, a strange beast lurking in the jungle transforms the lives of a civil servant and a teacher.
In A Long Bicycle Ride Into The Sea at the East Coast a young lawyer is challenged to get wet to prove his love.
An expatriate wife responds to her husband’s infidelity with a gift for their son in The Finger.
In Death of a Clown, a son finally meets his dying father in a Johor Bahru nursing home, and considers revenge.
There is no escape from the past for two strangers in the back seat of a car park in Jakarta in A Girl and a Guy in a Kijang in Kemang.
After the death of his great aunt, a student looking for closure returns to a small Australian country town for one last goodbye in Other People’s Cats.
Idiot and Dog is set in Adelaide where a young electrician, held back in life by his fragile mother, begs his Singaporean Australian girlfriend to take in a stray dog.
In A Fleeting Tenderness at the End of Night outside one of Singapore’s famous night clubs, Zouk, a taxi drives away from a wealthy businessman and a hostess yearning for escape.

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