Tag: death
In the movie ‘Byzantium’, there was the suggestion that ‘sometimes death releases people’. Well, that’s the way a vampire seemingly…
Check out the lyrics of the theme song of the standup-sitcom ‘Louie’, featuring Louis CK’s existential issues. (Okay, not always…
Super Short Story #303: Obituary Coming across those younger in the obituary section, he feels as if he had cheated…
Fairy tales are child-oriented ways to paint both hopes and fears. Of happy princesses and horrible monsters. Instead of readying…
Super Short Story (241): Sleep He overslept on his birthday, waking up at noon – with half of the day…
Super Short Story (235): Roll Not the most elegant analogy perhaps, but your life is like a roll of toilet…
Super Short Story (217): Number He retains the number of a deceased friend in his phone. It’s not so much…
The James Bond movie franchise had its 50th anniversary recently. Despite many themes of death in their titles, say, ‘You…
Super Short Story (198): Kid Part 1: It was terrible… the passing of his kid… Suddenly, he woke up. It…
We are born empty-handed come, and we die empty-handed. Yet, most of us are born with clenched fists, and some…
Super Short Story (183): Deathday As his Mother passed away on his birthday, this day will thereafter be remembered as…
Super Short Story (181): Undying Love She heard a line from a song that went ‘I’m in love with a…
Super Short Story (178): Crabs Every time he walks by the seafood section of the supermarket, he would take a…
Super Short Story (148): Doomsday He noticed that the obituary pages were just as filled on the days before, on…
If he does not work towards a greater goal that transcends life and death, that makes the world a better…
He doesn’t even want his loved ones to know he is dying of a rare terminal illness, but he forgot…
They say when you see yourself, it is time to die. But there is another way to see yourself, and another…
Forgetting that death is eventual, that it can come all too sudden, he was contented that he was ‘completely healed’,…
From the movie ‘Peepli (Live)’, which is social tragedy of about how a poor farmer was tempted to kill himself…
From the 1957 movie ‘The River’directed by Jean Renoir – Same But Different Nan: Why can’t you be good like…
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