Author: Shen Shián

Super Short Story #308: Allergy He has a theory, that some humans are so karmically allergic to some other humans…

Check out the lyrics of the theme song of the standup-sitcom ‘Louie’, featuring Louis CK’s existential issues. (Okay, not always…

From the movie ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’, the screenplay (based on the novel) plays with the audience’s perception. Is the Pakistani…

Having a ‘balanced mind’ does not mean never taking sides; it is to have no particular attachment or aversion, but…

Super Short Story #307: Niceness He’s not sure who is worse, who he frets more – someone who pretends to…

Super Short Story #306: Eye Contact She looked up to see him looking up. He looked up to see her…

Super Short Story #305: Creepiness Creepy is when, he realised, a supposedly creepy movie, that he thought wasn’t creepy enough,…

Super Short Story #304: Foreigner He came across many foreigners, whom he could not turn away from, on the trip…

Super Short Story #303: Obituary Coming across those younger in the obituary section, he feels as if he had cheated…

Super Short Story #302: Relativity The picture was of a normal bowl less than half-filled with noodles, though it was…

Super Short Story #301: OCD The more she read about OCD, the more obsessive and compulsive she became, in wanting…

Super Short Story #300: Confidence He was proud and over-confident that he was not proud; just confident.

Super Short Story #299: Machine With equal existential bad faith and indifference, the worker who was treated like a mere…

Super Short Story #298: Pavement The yellow street lamps made her more mindful of the plain pavement, that she strangely…

Super Short Story #297: Manhole The manhole cover had been driven upon so long, that it thought it was just…

Super Short Story #296: Walk He tries to never walk the same way twice, because life already has many standard…

Super Short Story #295: Soda He was quite full of himself, but he was just filled with too much gas…

Super Short Story #294: Slide Unable to take the increasing load of expectations anymore, the up escalator he used to…

Super Short Story #293: Speed Proud of his fast car, he forgot his speed of response, especially when drunk, is…

Super Short Story #292: Green Man Laughing at the scrambling green man who could never walk away, he forgot that…