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  MayShortReads19. Swapping Confessions
    Body & Sex | Fiction | Relationships

    MayShortReads19. Swapping Confessions

    May 29, 2013July 3, 2024
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    “How did we ever get here?” Aarav was sitting up in bed.

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  • Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism

    Angry Woman

    May 27, 2013September 23, 2023
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    Hello. I am an Angry Woman. This is not the same thing as Angry Girl that gives rise to a subculture of music and other pop references. It has only partly to do with my age.

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  MayShortReads18: Sleep
    Body & Sex | Fiction

    MayShortReads18: Sleep

    May 27, 2013September 10, 2023
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    Trigger warnings: Death, Abuse

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  • Fiction

    Protected: MayShortReads17: Feardom- Artistic Temperament

    May 26, 2013August 23, 2025
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    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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    City | Fiction | Map Of Emotion

    MayShortReads16: Crossing Lines

    May 24, 2013September 23, 2023
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    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.

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    MayShortReads15: Coffeeshop

    May 22, 2013September 16, 2023
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    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…

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  E & E Squared: Matt Beaumont – Never A Dull Byte In The Inbox
    Books | Digital World | WorkSpace

    E & E Squared: Matt Beaumont – Never A Dull Byte In The Inbox

    May 21, 2013March 30, 2025
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    Matt Beaumont’s twin books are a delightful duo of workplace complications and lagging behind everyone else, written in epistolary format – E & E Squared.

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  MayShortReads13: The Fad
    Body & Sex | Fiction

    MayShortReads13: The Fad

    May 20, 2013April 14, 2024
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    A short story about the fads of belief and authenticity and the law. And uh, beauty.

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  Twitter Trending Activities: A Poor Show by Social Media Agencies
    Digital World | WorkSpace

    Twitter Trending Activities: A Poor Show by Social Media Agencies

    May 20, 2013September 28, 2023
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    Social media is not advertising. Brand agenda forced onto Twitter works against the brand by generating resentment instead of participation.

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  • Body & Sex | Fiction | Map Of Emotion

    MayShortReads12: Pain

    May 18, 2013March 25, 2023
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    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…

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  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”
  • IdeaSmith on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “@XXfan: Yes, it appears to be a legal requirement for the hospital to show the removed parts to kin, probably…”
  • Xxfan on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “I experience with hysterectomy made me more mature.my mom had to have a hysterectomy.this was my first experience handling everything…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Slogan Murugan: Indeed. Books were always fascinating but this year has been about the people and spaces around books as…”

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