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  • Map Of Emotion | Poetry

    Adrenalin Roller-Coaster

    June 6, 2013March 23, 2026
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    The past is a drunk ex-husband.
    The future is a mysterious, smiling stranger.

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  A New June
    City | Map Of Emotion | Relationships | Roving I

    A New June

    June 4, 2013March 29, 2025
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    The first week of June spells pre-monsoon showers in Mumbai.

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  • Books | Pop Culture

    The Devil, The Lovers & Me – Kimberlee Auerbach

    June 4, 2013March 25, 2023
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    The Devil, the Lovers, and Me: My Life in Tarot by Kimberlee AuerbachMy rating: 3 of 5 stars A nice story, Chick Lit with a twist, since the heroine’s story is told in associations that emerge in a tarot reading. It feels more like light fiction than the autobiography that…

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  #SixWordStory: Shopping List
    Fiction

    #SixWordStory: Shopping List

    June 1, 2013September 16, 2023
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  MayShortReads20: Admirer
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    MayShortReads20: Admirer

    May 31, 2013March 25, 2023
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    A short story about an admirer and the object of their adulation

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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, 2013March 23, 2026
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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, 2013March 23, 2026
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    Trigger warnings: Death, Abuse

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  • Fiction

    Protected: MayShortReads17: Feardom- Artistic Temperament

    May 26, 2013August 23, 2025
    9 Comments

    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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