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    Locked Heart

    March 19, 2010April 11, 2024
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    You cannot make someone love you. No matter how wonderful, talented, beautiful, fabulous, kind, generous or successful you are. It’s an immutable law of nature. Because the heart that is locked, contains its own key within it. Discovering that is every person’s individual quest and no one else has any…

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    Map Of Emotion | Relationships

    Looking For Peace

    March 14, 2010October 5, 2023
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    I sat on the grass for a long time. It felt like it, as I breathed every second that passed. Even the quest for peace is unfamiliar.

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  Ideart: Good Karma, Bad Medicine
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    Ideart: Good Karma, Bad Medicine

    March 5, 2010February 25, 2025
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    A few days earlier I had a thought. The words Good karma, bad medicine just formed themselves in my head. I can’t quite explain the thought. It was one of those ideas that just showed itself and vanished before I fully explore it further. It still sounded interesting. I put…

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    Fiction | Relationships

    Tiny Tales: Bitter Coffee

    March 2, 2010March 18, 2023
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    The Corner Coffeeshop was open for business but its traffic was at a lull. It was too early in the evening for the post-work crowd, too late for the students and AC-enjoying unemployed to be hanging around. Outside, the sun had gone down but that curious combination of atmospheric density…

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    Politics & Feminism | Relationships | WorkSpace

    10 Dating Don’ts For Men

    March 1, 2010March 30, 2025
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    I read an article complaining about the things girls do on dates. So I put up a reality check for men who date. Based on true experiences.

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  From Ashes
    City | Fiction | Map Of Emotion

    From Ashes

    February 26, 2010July 3, 2024
    5 Comments

    How do you harvest imagination in a field of concrete & glass? You let it all burn down to ashes first.

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    Map Of Emotion

    At The End Of Fascination

    February 23, 2010September 21, 2023
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    The person I wrote this for, when he read it, told me, You don’t yet realize that we are beyond this. It was a fitting end in every way possible.

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    Body & Sex | Politics & Feminism

    To The Atypical Indian Male

    February 21, 2010October 5, 2023
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    A peaceful opening to the atypical Indian male – Please listen.

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  Twory: Equal Sins
    Digital World | Fiction | Relationships

    Twory: Equal Sins

    February 18, 2010February 25, 2025
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    The challenge was to write a 140-word story about Twitter on a timer. I call this a twory and it was written in 14 minutes. It’s about Equal Sins.

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    Fiction

    Tiny Tales: The Winning Point

    February 16, 2010October 5, 2023
    3 Comments

    A short story about winning (or not). Completely fictional characters but based on my own experiences on the campus festival circuit when I was younger.

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