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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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  • Fiction | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    MayShortReads11: The Belief Artist

    May 16, 2013March 25, 2023
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    “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,…

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    Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    “I Love You If….”: The Transactional Love of an Indian Man

    May 16, 2013September 28, 2023
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    Indian men can be supportive, understanding, generous as long as you fit a certain idea of womanhood. This love is transactional.

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    Protected: MayShortReads10: Feardom – A Hard Night’s Work

    May 15, 2013August 23, 2025
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    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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  • Body & Sex | Fiction | Home & Identity

    MayShortReads 09: The Beautiful Face

    May 14, 2013March 25, 2023
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    Selena’s best friend was her mirror. She began her day with it and it was the last thing she looked at, before she turned off her lights. Her mirror showed clear skin pulled taut over large, dark eyes, that topped a straight, defined nose, which led down to perfect Cupid’s…

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  Dancing
    Map Of Emotion | Poetry | Pop Culture | Roving I

    Dancing

    May 14, 2013March 29, 2025
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    Dance, dance with meSwing me out of secretsReel me into your criesSpin me over conversationsTo meet under shared laughter Dance with me.

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