Category: Stories

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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