No one knew why it happened. We only knew when. And it wasn't through the mainstream either, it was oddly enough, through a local opposition party newsletter- "Cannibalism hits poverty stricken Singaporeans" it claimed.
It was the news breaking edition.
Indeed, it broke the news that day. TODAY, The Straits Times and Channel Newsasia were all proclaiming it to be scattered one off incidents. The Minister for Home Affairs said as much. But some of us knew better.
It wasn't that the government had always lied or treated the populace like children. It was that the government always told us some version of the truth.
But truths are not facts.
The fact was healthy men were dropping dead in the prime of their lives. It wasn't that the medical screening process was negligent- it was that the government was claiming that they didn't know the reasons for their deaths.
But we knew this- one of them "awoke' and attacked family members during a wake.
That was the day everything changed. The dead were rising.
And they were hungry.
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