A story that isn’t relevant to its audience might as well not be told. When collective realities shift, stories must respond with care. At Public Works, we help businesses pause, listen, and reshape their stories to remain sensitive, meaningful, and grounded, so they connect honestly with audiences during moments of shared crisis.

Some ghost tales stem from moods and changes triggered by the monsoons. Shaped from the peculiarities of the rainy season, these horror stories take the form of urban legends and myths shared through verbal storytelling between friends, drinking circles, family and strangers who want to share a rush of adrenaline with warning. Here are two such monsoon ghost stories still in circulation as urban myths in Sri Lanka. One life every monsoon: the story of Samudradevi’s spirit haunting Diyawanna ...

A folktale is shaped by many voices across time. They echo generations. Rarely written down, but remembered and retold. Never owned, but...