Super Short Story (265): Size He knew it was right not to give away or throw out his oversized shirts too soon… for when he looked through them again, he could now better fit some of them.He wondered it is now right not to give away or throw out his undersized shirts… for maybe he...

Sam & Sara #400: Fashion Sara: Should I keep this piece? Sam: Well, it might come back in fashion. Sara: Well, I don’t follow fashion! Sam: Great! It’s timeless then! Why even think of chucking it? Fashionability cannot be grasped because it is changeability itself....

In ‘Hitchcock’, the imagined biographical movie of the inventive Alfred Hitchcock, he utters this line to his wife – ‘Self-plagiarism is style.’ Most of us tend to cling to supposedly unique styles we think we formed in various aspects of life. While we might...

Super Short Story (215): Change Since he had changed much over the years, she wondered which person she really loves. Is it the past version of him, or a future version? But the past is already gone, and the future yet to come. Or is she harbouring hope that he will return to his past self in...

Ted in ‘How I Met Your Mother’ says to his buddies, ‘Look we’ve all been searching for the five doppelgangers [of ourselves], right? But eventually, over time, we all become our own doppelgangers, you know, these completely different people who just happen to look like...

If the second hand is fleeting moment to moment, the minute hand is also fleeting moment to moment, with the hour hand also fleeting moment to moment. A past moment fleets to become a present moment. A present moment fleets to become a future moment. A future moment fleets to become a past...

Super Short Story (91): Performance The investment ad’s disclaimer reads, ‘Past performances are not indicative of future performances.’ This is the fickle way of the material world. Much more volatile is our mental world, our state of mind, that fluctuates up and down in...

Super Short Story (81): Change She was surprised that he had changed since they last met years ago, while he was surprised that she expected him not to change at all. Wouldn’t it be much more surprising if he didn’t changed a single bit? He would be a character out of a horror...

Although she was beside him, she was thinking of someone else – the past version of him. She wondered if she was having a mental affair, betraying him now, by preferring the old him. Or was she simply being faithful to a truer version of...

He stopped reading her stuff because he thought he could already read her like a book, forgetting that she is not a static book, but one with changing and growing...