MayShortReads17: Feardom- Artistic Temperament
A short story about a jolly old place called Feardom – a fictional afterlife universe populated by ghosts, ghouls, spirits, aliens and otherworldly beings.
MayShortReads16: Crossing Lines
Today’s short story is about the power of lines – physical and intangible. The prompt was a famous Bollywood dialogue, which also appears in the story.
MayShortReads15: Coffeeshop
Café Mocha, Suresh had learnt, was coffee with a little squirt of that chocolate syrup they had in squeeze bottles. It’s what he always ordered at a coffeeshop now. Coming from the state with the oldest and largest coffee plantations in the country, Suresh found it curious, even unfair that…
MayShortReads14: Family Secrets
A short story about the truth behind the peaceful family.
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E & E Squared: Matt Beaumont – Never A Dull Byte In The Inbox
Matt Beaumont’s twin books are a delightful duo of workplace complications and lagging behind everyone else, written in epistolary format – E & E Squared.
MayShortReads13: The Fad
A short story about the fads of belief and authenticity and the law. And uh, beauty.
Twitter Trending Activities: A Poor Show by Social Media Agencies
Social media is not advertising. Brand agenda forced onto Twitter works against the brand by generating resentment instead of participation.
MayShortReads12: Pain
Turena wipes the wood-top desk and arranges the white sheet over it. It’s impractical, she has been told, but that’s what an architect would think. No artist would deny the magic of a white surface, the dichotomy of blank or plain, the lure of bleeding the pristine. Funnily enough, that…
MayShortReads11: The Belief Artist
“You’re a con. None of these things work.” said Shayla shaking the tiny glass bell with the silver heart for a clapper. It was pretty but Shayla wouldn’t admit that. She settled for holding it with the tips of her manicured fingers. “That’s not true. I don’t lie.” Deerun replied,…
“I Love You If….”: The Transactional Love of an Indian Man
Indian men can be supportive, understanding, generous as long as you fit a certain idea of womanhood. This love is transactional.