J Dee DuPuy is a Bostonian and RedSox fan transplanted to the equator where the air is thick and heavy and smells like plants all the time. Her adopted city is 719 square km of tropical paradise containing 5.6 million people and one stunned expat who retreats to the attic of a flat on Pasir Panjang Road to hide from the sun and write speculative fiction after the day-job is done.