Category: Stories

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Sep
2012

Super Short Story (46): Familiarity

It’s important to know others better, as it leads to more understanding, but as familiarity might breed contempt too, she’s…

19
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (45): Moment

It all boils down to this very moment, in the here and now… Everything in the past has led him to…

19
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (44): MacGuffin

Here is the paradox of this story: The MacGuffin mentioned here, that you try to grasp is both central and…

19
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (43): Cure

There is no cure for the common cold because the symptoms are part of the cure itself, where the body…

19
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (42): Letdown

She grew up thinking that people can let her down, before realising that the first person who could ever let her…

19
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (41): Bet

She thought it should be alright to place only small bets in the casino games. But since big losses begin…

19
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (40): Fame

Seeing how the famous are often swarmed by illusions created by those eager to please them to their own advantage,…

19
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (39): Number

It was hard to convince her that it was not her car number that almost struck the lottery, as if…

19
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (38): Machine

He took it for granted, that the washing machine will clean everything, forgetting that even the washing machine needs occasional…

19
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (37): Walk

He was tired of agents recommending him places supposedly only five minutes from the station. What he wanted was a…

19
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (36): Blindness

‘Are you blind or deaf?’ He yelled, at the guy who bumped into him. To his anger, there was still…

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Sep
2012

Super Short Story (35): Short-sightedness

She thought it would be better to move in closer for a clearer look. But when she came really close, she…

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Sep
2012

Super Short Story (34): Jealousy

Insecure, he looked for faults in others more than virtues, seeking assurance that others are also not doing well… until he…

19
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (33): Paranoia

He thought she was really paranoid while he was really not ‘paranoid’ enough, because her fears were not unfounded.

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Sep
2012

Super Short Story (32): Big Deal

It’s not so much that I make a big deal out of not eating animals; but that animals see not being…

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Sep
2012

Super Short Story (31): Silence

The librarian grumbled aloud while she arranged the messed up books on the shelves, not only forgetting that it was her…

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Sep
2012

Super Short Story (30): Book

He stopped reading her stuff because he thought he could already read her like a book, forgetting that she is…

05
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (29): Grudge

Because he nursed a grudge against his friend, that is actually unfounded, and because it was never clarified, he punishes…

05
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (28): Illness

He doesn’t even want his loved ones to know he is dying of a rare terminal illness, but he forgot…

05
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (27): Irony

Here is the biggest irony about her… She doesn’t understand what is ‘irony’, yet her very life is already full…