Tag: perception

Super Short Story (138): Look (2) She’s not sure why he never looks at him. Maybe he is ‘showing’ disdain…

Super Short Story (137): Look (1) He’s not sure why she keeps looking. Maybe she’s interested. Maybe he just looks…

From the movie ‘Moonrise Kingdom’, is this simple tribute, arranged in a poetic form. Sam asks, ‘Why do you always…

Super Short Story (125): Sign She discovered two conclusive astrological truths – No matter what sign you are born of,…

Super Short Story (120): Distance He appreciated that the cleaner he frequently encounters in the restaurant never saw himself to…

Jonathan Safran Foer’s book title does not imply animal-eaters only eat animals and do nothing else. It is a way…

Super Short Story (117): Swimsuit While looking at various swimsuits, she realised how culturally and personally arbitrary a swimsuit is….

Super Short Story (106): Money She kept imagining that if only she had more money, it would be easier to…

Super Short Story (105): Accessory Although the guy convicted in court wears a mala (Buddhist prayer beads), it need not…

Super Short Story (104): Pseudo There is the pseudo, this he knows, though it is not always easy to detect….

Super Short Story (103): Perfume Especially after seeing an ad, he found it more puzzling, as to why women use…

Super Short Story (102): Smell She realised that he’s quite a nice guy online, before realising he has a smell…

Super Short Story (101): House Just as what inside her house was very different, and much more interesting than the…

Super Short Story (100): Bias He was already biased before watching the presidential debate. But he watched it anyway, because…

Super Short Story (97): Specialty She says she can’t take him seriously, because he specialises in generalising. Then again, she…

Super Short Story (92): Email He received five long paragraphs when he was just expecting a yes or no answer…

Super Short Story (90): Signature She found it bewildering at the bank, that some staff are more arbitrarily particular than…

Super Short Story (88): Pockets In packed trains, whenever he has nothing to hang on to, he always stands with…

Super Short Story (86): Massage Walking by a massage shop, she caught a glance of an off-peak hour in there….

Super Short Story (80): Number He bore a grudge as there was no response from her for his birthday greeting…