Category: Stories

05
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (26): Inferiority Complex

As he imagined others to be looking down on him, when it wasn’t the case, it was really just him…

05
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (25): Sleep

Thoughts before jumping out of bed: Instead of just asking why we sleep, how about wondering why we wake up?…

05
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (24): Money

He thought, ‘If I work to make the world a better place, instead of to make lots of money, even…

05
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (23): Homewreckers

Why be a homewrecker, she thought, by being a third-party? And why risk being with him, who wrecks his own…

05
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (22): Empty Threat

If he were to ignore the ridiculous ransom note, as if it was never received, read or understood, it becomes…

05
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (21): Weakness

She thought her intelligence was her strength, though it was really her weakness. She was simply too rational and thus…

05
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (20): Creativity

He frowned at the realistic-looking painting. ‘Why bother?’, he thought, ‘If I wanted something reproduced so exactly, I would have…

05
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (19): Medals

Are the Olympic Games’ victories for fattening egos, he wondered, while the Paralympic Games’ victories for raising self-esteem? Then again,…

05
Sep
2012

Super Short Story (18): Mc Blessing (Or Curse)?

The headline read, ‘McDonald’s Goes Vegetarian — In India’. Some branches at least. Well, for making more money, makes ‘cents’…

28
Aug
2012

Super Short Story (16): Drink

‘Fix me a drink’, he asked, again and again. Forgetting again and again, that he could it himself, that he needn’t bother…

28
Aug
2012

Super Short Story (15): Bells

For whom the bell tolls? For the asker of this, at least, who hears it, who wonders this, and you,…

28
Aug
2012

Super Short Story (14): Code

He didn’t like it that many books seem to be coded, heavily laden with technical and cultural terms. It made him feel inadequate, although…

28
Aug
2012

Super Short Story (13): Doppelgänger

They say when you see yourself, it is time to die. But there is another way to see yourself, and another…

28
Aug
2012

Super Short Story (12): Handicap

His blindness was no longer a weakness; but a strength, not because he overcame it, but because he accepted that he couldn’t,…

28
Aug
2012

Super Short Story (11): Suspect

Suspecting him to be the backstabber at first, the more he looked at him, the more he looked like one….

28
Aug
2012

Super Short Story (10): No Obligations

She made her jobscope so crystal clearly defined, that she hardly offered any help to colleagues beyond her obligations. Naturally,…

28
Aug
2012

Super Short Story (9): Book Towers

His towering stacks of books all over the room was a sign of his great knowledge. But the toppling of…

28
Aug
2012

Super Short Story (8): Healer

Forgetting that death is eventual, that it can come all too sudden, he was contented that he was ‘completely healed’,…

28
Aug
2012

Super Short Story (7): Nudity

She thought the idea of nudity was arbitrary and absurd. A girl who bares her top is considered naked, while…

28
Aug
2012

Super Short Story (6): Iced Lemon Tea

She realised she didn’t really like the iced lemon tea there, since the tea was often too sweet or the…