at the time of "discuss disgust"'s release, hicks reported to "the straits times" that she had been working on a third book, one that centred on correspondence between herself and an unnamed female housemate. hicks wrote of her social observations of the united states during a two-month visit, using it as a springboard to social commentary about singapore. while the book idea further revealed hicks' preference to write with a certain person in mind it never materialised, not even in draft form or as personal papers released posthumously .