“What are you doing? Stop right now! I ask you to…stooop!” yelled the blonde woman as she curled up in the corner. She was a well-dressed middle-aged lady, dressed in an expensive beige dress, adorned with shiny jewelry and a gleaming necklace covering her naked bust. Man: “Ohh so now you want me away, is it? You want nothing with…
Month: July 2020
A Tiger Heart
[A short story, based on the prompt: “Write a story featuring an animal who subverts expectations”] «Kenzo! Grab it now!» The mother tiger yelled. The pack of tigers had circled around on a young deer, leaving no chance of escape. The scene was covered in a veil of silence as the suspense of the attack was rising. «Kenzo wake up!…
A Blossom Saturday
[A short story, based on the prompt: “Write a story about one event from the different perspectives of multiple friends…”] Mark I couldn’t believe it. I was rubbing my eyes and looking at them again and again. Maybe it was a dream. Maybe the drink I had earlier was mixed with chemicals that made me hallucinate. I would prefer it…
Growing Apart
I can see your eyes darting. You try to play cool. You were always good at hiding your feelings. At least to others, that is. Because I have learned to pick up the signs. «I double» you say. And there is sheer silence for a moment. But I can hear 6 hearts beating faster than light, all around the table.…
A Star For A Gift
«Bliah! This thing smells so bad! Are you sure this is what your father smokes?» The boy started coughing uncontrollably. «Sure it is! I think you are too immature for it. Give me that!» The girl grabbed the cigarette from the boy’s hand and took a big puff. Her wet lips glossed over it, leaving a layer of saliva over…
A Persistent Mind
“How can you send me over there with James! James?! Really?” She turned her palms upwards. “There are so many people in the office, Harry. Look around..” The woman turned back, presenting the people outside the room, circulating her wrists, as if revealing a magical object. Woman: “This guy cannot handle his own shoelaces, let alone a big case like…
The Street View Driver
The little snap would come up like a little bell. Every 5 seconds it would hit invariably with the accuracy of a high-level algorithmic function, developed after months and months of manufacturing, down in the tech laboratories. It would resemble the beating of a heart, pumping life to the mechanism underlying the car. The «swirling snapper» was its name among…
The Black Whale Cat
City noise had dissolved after the rainstorm. The burst had settled down, transposed into harmony, as all extreme outbreaks bring in the end. The soil was still wet and soggy and the sun shying away, stubbornly refusing to show up. All movement seemed paused and for a little bit, it felt like a deep stillness had taken over. In the…
Dealing With The ‘What If’ Pandemic
In the short story ‘Exhalation’ by Ted Chiang, a new Prism technology makes its appearance that allows reality to diverge through the use of quantum mechanics. From the moment the device is activated, time deviates and the present is split into 2 parallel versions that coexist at a different time-space continuum. The 2 realities progress separately as if it was the…
A Word For Marlon Brando
Many people assume that progressing in a craft or a hobby is about the thing you are doing per se. But that is nothing but a mere distraction. A means to an end that depicts how further ahead you can get as a person. It wouldn’t be hard to imagine that whatever level you reach in one thing you could…