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<I>What if you could dream up any building you like? What would it be? How would constructing it change our lives?</I><br/><br/><br/>A shopping mall self-destructs, and a single mother vanishes. A tree house for orphans and old folks is torn apart by an act of mercy. The Singapore Flyer is reinvented as a political prison. In this collection of nine tales, Clara Chow examines an alternative Singaporean landscape&mdash;one that exists only on paper&mdash;and the people we might be in it. A former newspaper correspondent, she interviews nine architects about chimeric structures and sets short stories in them. A hybrid of journalism and fiction, <I>Dream Storeys</I> documents the voices of urban visionaries, while taking their ideas into inventive, evocative new territories.<br/><br/>&ldquo;An inventive combination of non-fiction and fiction, with expertly crafted and unpredictable short stories. The exquisite and precise details in Clara Chow&rsquo;s stories bring to life the fantastical structures dreamt of by her interviewees.&rdquo;<br/>-Dave Chua, author of Gone Case<br/><br/>&ldquo;By mirroring real-life architectural dreams with a fictional narrative, Clara Chow has produced an intriguing and original literary structure. Her somewhat dystopian world is a discomforting vision of a future where people struggle to adapt to societies very different from today, yet are still guided by a deep sense of their own humanity and their connection to each other.&rdquo;<br/>-Meira Chand, author of A Different Sky