tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53886374435391717422024-01-23T17:36:43.882+05:3055wordstoryVivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.comBlogger302125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-34319352439381704452015-09-04T12:15:00.002+05:302015-09-05T00:00:49.830+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 29 - Massacre<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729:</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Essay subject is 'massacre' and, <i>please,</i> no <span lang="en">Distomo and so on.</span> Good marks for <i>humorous efforts</i> <i>only</i>. Class dismi....” - chaos, slump, head-desk. <i>Phew</i>: At least I won't have to read 32 efforts about babies being bayoneted.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“No Sir.., yes,.. shocking.., 'Belsen was a gas', 'Lidice lol lol' – who would have thought?... Of course I'll resign...”</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was deathly silence, imprisoned souls, seized minds. A while ago someone demolished all the thoughts, all the questions raised in that little devil’s head. Someone marked the windows, which shouldn’t be opened. He listened, grasped every bit. That world was naive for him, where dreams, hope, and innate desires of his own, massacred already.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @AshieJayn:</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"And how will you earn a living? By writing appalling songs they call music? No. I cannot have my daughter be a part of this, this musical massacre. It will be the ultimate blow to my entire existence."</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Dad, You taught me to believe in my dreams. In our dreams. Of creating better music.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />So Believe. In its power!"</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br /></div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-75343203107480169432015-09-03T22:05:00.002+05:302015-09-03T22:05:27.977+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 28 - Bigot<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729:</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At night, linking stars with cool earth; during the day refuge from the yellow god. David and Goodwill met under her branches in secret; they were, perhaps, braver than others before them. After a night of dark voices and fire, the sun's early light cast soft shadows from their bodies, hanging from the zeyheri tree.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @AshieJayn:</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once upon a time a war of independence bound many regions and states into a country. This country grew to become home and motherland to a billion people. People of many religions, varied cultures and a multitude of languages. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">One would wonder then, how and where does bigotry seep through it's borders?</span></span></div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-15088198414833949702015-09-02T17:12:00.002+05:302015-09-02T17:12:30.496+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 27 - Artist<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @mrinalgupta98:</b> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The world thought she was crazy because she wasn’t like them. They thought she was lost in her own world. She saw beauty in everything. She talked to the trees, she sang with the breeze and she flew with the birds. She wasn’t lost, she had found herself. She wasn’t crazy, she was an artist.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @AshieJayn: </b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He would arrive at dawn and sit on a quiet corner of the beach. He would be gone before the morning sun broke over the horizon.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Everyday visitors would stop and admire the story drawn in the sand until the evening's high tide washed it away. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Everyday they would thank the mysterious artist for brightening their day.</span></span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan: </b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 14.7200002670288px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The day she was being left amidst howling of emptiness. Destruction occurred to her. Her wrecked soul flooded, suffocated from remembrance. She stretched her crafty realm. She didn’t even know if it existed before. She arrested into unknown, captured few isolated moments for herself and transformed her every tear into verse. People call her artist.</span></span></div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-76909132516933121722015-09-01T10:10:00.001+05:302015-09-01T10:10:17.835+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 26 - Solitary Flight<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @AshieJayn:</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I can travel through time as much as through human beings.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I may travel in singles, doubles or groups - small and large. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But my most favourite journey is when I break free from all ideas and the so called practicality and soar high above the clouds in </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">solitary</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">flight</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I am a thought, a fantasy, a dream.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan:</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">A teardrop trickled down his fragile feathers while watching them to fly. One by one all the owlkids left the nest but the fluffy one. He too tried to spread wings, limped, crumpled, tried again but those undeveloped muscles weighed him down. He understood he has to wait as nature wants to embrace his </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">solitary</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">flight</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729:</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I preferred books over people: interesting, yet reliable; emotional, but not destructive. </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Flying</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> over life, reading on the plane! Strapped in and now descending to a silent and unpeopled landing strip, I find I can recall only in miniature: grid like towns, neat squares of forest, nothing. Get real: books are a load of crap.</span></span></div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-19181452391509165972015-08-27T11:48:00.000+05:302015-08-27T11:48:41.950+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 25 - Naughty<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @AshieJayn:</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"Hey, remember the time we ate that chili chocolate cake at Smriti's place?"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"Oh yes! I still wonder how all that chili ended up in it."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"Don't you know? Her kid brother did it for not letting him play with us and then charmed us into eating it. Smriti says his son has totally taken after him."</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @aaroo4:</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What are you doing? He asked the child</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I write words I don’t know on this paper that mommy gave & we find it in the dictionary</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What word you writing now?</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">N.a.u.g.h.t.y</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You don’t know that word? he asks with a grin.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, am a good boy no.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @Zoarcher: </b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She happily wobbled towards the living room, flashing her toothless smile. Suddenly a loud “BOO” caught her unawares. “He and his tricks”, she thought lovingly, “every day up to something”. She turned slowly and admired the mischievous glint in his cataract-blurred eyes. She hoped he would never change. Always remain impish, till the very end. </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan: </b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wickedness is nothing just an ebb and flow of hormones. Don’t judge because some reactions going inside my body at least. I give you more reasons to be cynical as skin colour, body stats and my weight. Go, expand your literacy level. But keep your eyes-off from that zone where I still stay as naughty.</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729: </b></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Naughty Wrongflop inherited from her father an extensive collection of pornographic writing and had, some years earlier, inherited a similarly extensive collection of religious texts from her uncle, the famous Bishop Wrongflop. It amused her to house both collections together, sorted alphabetically. Arranged so, the unwilling participants in the battle of ideas, finally at rest.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @dr_lucy_says:</b> </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<div style="color: black;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Mumma, my teacher told a story about Naughty. He had a friend called Big Years.”<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“You mean Noddy and Big-Ears?”<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Nooo, it was Naughty.”<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Okay! So, what did he do?”<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“He had a hat with a bell.”<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Really!!”<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Ma, I want that hat too, I want to be Naughty.”<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black;">
</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Oh honey, believe me, you are.”</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @dr_lucy_says:</b> </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="color: black;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<div>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Leather didn’t do anything for her, but she had read that some preferred leather over lace. So, she thought about giving it a go.<u></u><u></u></span></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<div>
<span lang="EN-US">Crop top. Check.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div>
<span lang="EN-US">Hot pants. Check.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div>
<span lang="EN-US">Boots. Check.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div>
<span lang="EN-US">Handcuffs. Check.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div>
<span lang="EN-US">Whip?? Umm… Check!!<u></u><u></u></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">
</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<span lang="EN-US">She was going to show him that she was done being nice. She’d take him on a whirlwind.</span></div>
</span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-42309070536910312392015-08-26T09:12:00.002+05:302015-08-26T09:12:13.966+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 23 - Pornography<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @_ankitachauhan:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">I never watched porn, not because some moral issues. I don’t think I would like it, I mean it’s a process of human birth. You can find each detail in those heavy science books too.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><br /></span>
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Past days when I found this PornBan Hash Tag, I had a great laugh on the stupidity of so-called law-makers. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @oink1729: </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's nothing worse than failed pornography, and all pornography is failed pornography. Only words can return us to the pre-Christian unity of the physical and spiritual, indeed... Mr. Sauce's thoughts rudely interrupted by the Bishop: “It's not brain cancer man! You've no excuse!”</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Nurse, new symptom. I've got this pain in my ass. Could you?”</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @oink1729: </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The sun encrusted ankle bracelet playing soft shapes of light on your brown skin..”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nope.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Your sun..”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The sun shaped bracelet coruscating gentle light on your beautiful ankles, you turned, and..”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sigh, 55wordporn really shouldn't be this hard to write.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“YOU FINISHED IN THE TOILET MR. SAUCE? LETS CLEAN YOU UP THEN MR. SAUCE.”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @AshieJayn: </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Have you seen the photographs?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I told you, I know absolutely nothing about this stuff.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I’m not asking you for a thesis. Just have a look and tell me if you feel something. Call me back!”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three and a half minutes later. “Man! Food looking like this should be illegal. I’m firing my cook and moving in with you.”</span></div>
</div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-91806278989373002602015-08-25T08:40:00.000+05:302015-08-25T08:40:00.023+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 24 - Malice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @aaroo4: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">C’mon repeat it 5 more times and you can go play.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But mama, what he did was wrong.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Yes,but what you did was wrong.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I am sorry. I just wanted him to feel the pain I felt when he pushed me</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">No, baby not done. Say it aloud “I bear no </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">malice</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> towards others”</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @AshieJayn: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was a child when she was captivated by the gracefulness of Bharatnatyam. However, we had no choice other than to discourage her. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Being a family of meagre means, one would think we bore </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">malice</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> to her chosen art form.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But how does one explain the choice between necessity and luxury to a seven year old.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan:</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">People humiliate us, try to destroy us by blurting harsh words. How people kept that much </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">malice </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">inside.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though I’m not saint or some preacher but feeling of revenge drags me down into the chamber, surrounded with black walls, As if I am chopping off my soul. So I ignore them, only method that works.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br /></span></div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-68707748454054657192015-08-23T14:37:00.001+05:302015-08-23T14:37:18.611+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 22 - Love in Small Letters<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Our love is written not with dramatically capitalized nouns running, out of breath, into firm, sentry-like, exclamation marks: </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Oh Joy of Tumultuous Fate</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">! It is written with semi-colons, tender parenthesis, lists. A making things work, muddling through fuck-ups kind of love. A love that will leave this world holding hands. A love in small letters.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Strangers come into our life with an option of certainty. “Love wouldn’t be enough, no matter how much we exhausted from it. Their small gestures, tiny talks and kindness saved our life for a while. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 16.8666667938232px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="line-height: 16.8666667938232px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although we know we can’t reserve them forever, still their silhouette outlasts the time. Little things matter.</span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="line-height: 16.8666667938232px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="line-height: 16.8666667938232px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @ashiejayn: </b></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="line-height: 16.8666667938232px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The third night in a row I was home past her bedtime and my heart strangled with guilt as I watched her sleep.<br />A folded sheet of paper peeked out from under her pillow, addressed to me.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The simply worded letter written in her small hand felt like a surge of love flowing through my body.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-40212337799281788982015-08-23T14:34:00.000+05:302015-08-23T14:34:17.720+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 21 - Meet Again as Strangers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729: </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The strange temporal dislocation of meeting you; familiar gestures imbued with an unreal, almost artificial, quality. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Between the reality and the memory falls the shadow</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, I laughed inwardly, remembering how you had read me “Prufrock” and “Hollow Men” that late June day. That memory will always be part of me, though you no longer are.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>From @GmaneGawade: </b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I remember the first time we met. The first words we spoke. We were both so naive and conscious. Your questions answered but mine still lingered as questions. My feelings unspoken and thoughts uncomprehended. We don't do this anymore. I met you as a stranger and I hope someday we'll meet yet again as strangers.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>From @dr-Lucy_says: </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> “You know, I had hots for him back in college.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">“Hah! How can you say that to me? I’m his wife now!”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">“Hey, just kidding!!!”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">“Well, here he is. See you!”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">“Hi, how are you?”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">“I’m good.You?”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">“Fine.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">**Sigh, I still love him**</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">**Damn, I still love her**</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">“So… ummn… okay then.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">“Okay, Bye!”</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>From @AshieJayn: </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Covered in dust and cobwebs, her eyes came to rest on a looming shadow. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">"You're still here?", she exclaimed </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">as</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> the imposing gramophone stood out despite the darkness. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">She no longer felt any resentment towards it for being his first love. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">"Well, hello </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">stranger</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">!" she greeted cheerfully and pulled it out. "It's time we got acquainted."</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan: </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I love to touch her skin and feel the spine. We often </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">meet</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">as</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> a </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">stranger</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">. But there is secret pact between me and my book, after savouring every bit, I hide her inside one of my bookshelves, and People think it’s some kind of disorder, schizo…? Everybody deserves pure madness in love, even books too.</span></div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-74183996523666986032015-08-21T16:37:00.000+05:302015-08-21T16:37:07.116+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 20 - You Never Call<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>From @dr_lucy_says:</b><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Hey! You're late again.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Yeah, got caught up in work.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“But at least you could have called, I was waiting
for you!!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Humph! I’ll do that next time.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
**He sneaks away**</div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
**She picks his phone and sets a repetitive alarm for all
days saying “Call your wife if you are going to be late!!” Sniggers! ** <o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b>From @meetumeetu</b><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
7.2 billion unhappy people. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“But that doesn't add up,” He thought as He began the count
again. “Something’s amiss...aha! Caught the glitch...”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Sarah went about her life with a smile, facing her worries
chin up, when her son met with an accident.</div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
Even God can't wait to hear from the one person who doesn't
call.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>From @aaroo4: </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
She gave a long kiss and left home. He waited patiently, the
clock ticked by. He had lunch, slept a while and waited. Suddenly the doorbell
rang, she walked in. He looked at her with eyes that said “you never call”. She
bent, rubbed his belly as he flopped and told him about her day.<o:p></o:p></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
<b>From @oink1729: </b><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
Bishop Wrongflop-Sauce felt the beginnings of a spiritual
crisis. Not only had his delinquent brother mass distributed the risible “Cosmopolitan
Thinker” throughout the parish, but the Women's Institute had called a debate
on “Does the Church Hate the Female Form?”, and invited Stephen Fry.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
On his knees weeping in the presbytery: “God, you never
call!”.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>From @_ankitachauhan:</b> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I caught myself constantly calling you in the past nights,
and you never called back. I wanted to envelop into warmth of your voice. Is
there some alternate of your loved one’s mouthpiece? This darkness engulfed me
in night, like a hell. Does network properly work after death?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A long phone call is awaited. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>From @AshieJayn: </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The rain peeked through the window, dripping down the pane,
searching for him. Daylight was darkened by the cloud unleashing its fury.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He sat in the closet, hiding between layers of her forgotten
silk dresses and wondered why she didn’t call his name anymore. He felt so
alone in this game of hide and seek. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b>From @meetumeetu: </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
7,992,258,184 billion unhappy people.<br />
<br />
“But that doesn't add up,” He thought as He began the count again. “Something's
amiss...aha! Caught the glitch...”<br />
<br />
Sarah went about her life with a smile, facing her worries chin up, when her
son met with an accident.<br />
<br />
Even God can't wait to hear from the one person who doesn't call.<o:p></o:p></div>
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-33521371543733195512015-08-20T09:01:00.002+05:302015-08-20T09:01:31.714+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 19 - Solitary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A rain enclosed late September afternoon, a window, a book, a solitary intimacy. Rain and words commingling, the rains falling, the pages turning, peace. But then the book ends and I want to see you again, and I don't know how to. Behind the fields, behind the trees, a violent unreal sunset. An unquiet mind.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @aaroo4: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“Ma, what does this word mean. “H e r m i t" she spelt the word slowly</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Just read the book, leave me alone” said the mom</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“Tell me this one thing, I promise I won’t ask again” she whispered</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“Well, Hermit is someone who lives alone, like your Granpa” said the mom walking way</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @GreaterBombay: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Behold her, single in the field…</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">” </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">*snickers*</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“You, in the back! What’s so funny?”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">-“Nothing, miss!”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">…Or is it some more humble lay, …</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">*snickers*</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“Boys! Laugh at Wordsworth again, you’re out of class!”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“Sorry miss!”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I saw her singing at her work, And o'er the sickle bending...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">*HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!*</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“That’s it! Outside! Both of you!”</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @AshieJayn: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have you noticed how even a lone little candle can brighten up the dark world around it?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But when it joins hands with many more such candles, it becomes a powerful medium. A single force bound by its unique glow. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">To achieve success, all you need is to light that solitary spark in your heart.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @mrinalgupta98: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 24.5333347320557px;">They say humans are social animals and need to associate. They say you cannot survive alone, but she did. Not that she had a choice. Abandoned after birth, she grew up alone on the streets. She existed </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 24.5333347320557px;">solitary</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 24.5333347320557px;"> and now she is alone on her death bed. Being crippled sure changes a lot of things.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @meetumeetu: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"So, heard about the water shortage this year?" She asked like any stand-up comedian would start a joke.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Yyyepp! 30% short. I don't get these farmers though. If they've no rain, let them have water tankers." She grinned at a booing crowd. "Come on! Wouldn't Marie Antoinette say that?"</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her humor had but one fan.</span></div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-80055291383136471642015-08-19T23:35:00.004+05:302015-08-20T11:46:20.916+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 18 - Angst<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @shivom_oza: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 boys, both victims of domestic abuse, used to live in the same neighbourhood.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One grew up to become a social activist working for the cause of eliminating domestic violence.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other, ended up becoming an alcoholic and a wife-beater.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Angst is omnipresent. It's totally up to us – what we choose to make of it.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @AshieJayn: </b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was younger when I grew my hair from the chin length straight cut to mid-back length. How I loved to style it and feel it fall down my back in glorious waves. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Now, on a bad hair day I just want to take a pair of scissors to it. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Strange how patience freezes into angst.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @GreaterBombay: </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="im" style="color: #500050;">You there, with your hashtagged first-world problems: </span>Your annoyance with not-quite-apt emojis; <span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><br />Your disgust with the waiter’s thumbprint on your plate; </span>Your quest to find one band no one’s heard of yet;<br />Your fear that your accent gives away your background;<br />Your concern over Jon Snow’s fate…</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to trade lives with you.</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729: </b></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perusing the galley proofs of “<i>The Cosmopolitan Thinker</i>”, a satisfied Reginald Wrongflop Sauce imagined a revolution. The diversity of the 55 word pornographic stories was indeed impressive: gay, straight, spanking, fish-tanks. A sexual revolution in Times New Roman font! Any angst concerning subscription numbers was ameliorated by..</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“BLADDER IRRIGATION TIME MR. SAUCE!”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“But nurse I'm..”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @mrinalgupta98:</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He used to worry unusually. He would be anxious if his
roommate was late, his mother didn’t call or even if his cat was quiet. Angst
came natural to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everything made sense when he held the paper in his hand.
Nothing was his fault. It read,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Patient Name: Ritvik Acharya<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diagnosis: Generalised Anxiety Disorder</span><o:p></o:p></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-20964295741903981902015-08-18T11:20:00.000+05:302015-08-18T11:20:44.560+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 17 - Float<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @shivom_oza: </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He never got the things he chased after - be it money, success, friendships or love. Happiness came to him from the most unlikely situations.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
</div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was then that he learnt - maybe he isn't supposed to surge towards his wants. All that he must do is remain afloat, and he'll get what he needs.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @aaroo4: </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He saw his son hold onto the photo tightly in his tiny palms as sleep caressed those eyes. He was sure that within minutes the child would float away to dreamland and all will be forgotten till next morning. Alas, he could not say the same for himself. He missed her and sleep eluded him.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @dr_lucy_says: </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a dark day. The clouds loomed above them, casting outlandish shadows over the sprawling fields. Everyone was in daze, gaping at them, anticipation apparent in their parched eyes. But the clouds started clearing away without shedding a single drop. Nothing was left floating above them. Not even hope. It was a dark day.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @_ankitachauhan: </span></b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">And that day she was freed from the thread of affection. She began to float in the nothingness, just like a gentle bird’s quill. All the —maybe, maybe not— suspended. The fear of separation ripped apart. An impulse of love folded, comforting gaze lost its essence.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The day when he sternly uttered 'I need space.' </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @GreaterBombay:</b> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">"Ice-cream with Coke? That's disgusting." </span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">"Well, in Eastern Europe, they make Coca-Cola soup. .. "</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">"Stop! You're making it worse!"</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">"I think an Elvis fan has no business being grossed out by food." </span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">" Meaning?"</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">" He'd have fried banana in his sandwich, for God's sake. Even Jughead had cream sodas at Pop Tate's."</span><br style="text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">" Really? Chal I'll try one."</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: start;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @CruciFire: </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Gulp*</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Somebody save me…”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Try to stay afloat love; I’ll come back with a lifesaver, I promise.”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Come back soon… this brown water… this white iceberg…will be the end of me. It’s freezing in here.”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*A finger scoops him up and throws him out*</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“SO many flies here, man.”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Boss, please replace this coke float.”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @TheQuietBelle_ :</b> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You were like the ocean at night - a beautiful, dark, cold, mysterious, inviting expanse of blue. She, besotted with intrigue, dived head first completely oblivious to the storms brewing in your depths. She valiantly fought against all the turbulence you offered, trying to keep from sinking. Ironic how only when you had sucked every last living breath out of her did she finally come afloat. Light. Happy. Lifeless. Dead.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @AshieJayn: </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A gust of wind picked it up from the flower bed and carried it across the garden. The rose held itself together until it just couldn't anymore. The winds pulled the petals from the stem and finally set them free. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />If only I could be like that. A free spirit, floating in the breeze.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @nobar_code:</b> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was it the shoreline or the feeling of being swept by the waves, which worked wonders on his soul. He felt light, almost like being buoyed by an invisible force. A combination of lethal drugs and here he was reduced to a catatonic state. Staying afloat with the help of an analgesic; not done.</span></span></div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-61682907650724556932015-08-17T23:11:00.002+05:302015-08-17T23:12:33.617+05:30#55wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 16 - Twinge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @meetumeetu: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He prepped himself for another operation. The routine procedure needed one change.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />1. Get attracted.<br />2. Get attached.<br />3. Attack, be attacked; hurt, be hurt.<br />4. Dress the wound.<br />5. Rip the bandage.<br />6. Rinse, repeat.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"She's beautiful, what a lovely conversation," his heart sang as his mind prepped to skip steps 2 to 5.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @shivom_oza:</b> </span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a fit of rage, he threw away all the food before him into the dustbin. Back then, he felt euphoric at having gotten back at his nagging wife.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nowadays, whenever he sees a homeless child begging for food, while commuting - he is reminded of that incident - this time, accompanied with a twinge of regret.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan:</b> </span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="line-height: 16.8666667938232px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A sharp needle penetrated her upper dermis. She felt a sudden twinge. She grunted, wavered and precipitated on the floor. His heart sank. After losing parents she had become the real definition of love to him. When Vat declared about completion of his pet’s life-span, he was the one who actually sensed a little death. </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="line-height: 16.8666667938232px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="line-height: 16.8666667938232px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @nobar_code: </b></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="line-height: 16.8666667938232px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If waiting for the bus wasn't enough, the uncouth crowd was too much to ask for. Thanks to slum rehabilitation scheme, scores of those living in shanties crowded into the suburbs, unchecked. The other day a sharp strike at the head made her realize, that transitioning from huts to flats, didn't make them look civilized.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @GreaterBombay: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her toes were already protesting, arches frankly sick of holding her up all day, as she eased off d'orsay peeptoe patent pumps and walked into baby's room. Blood rushed back into tortured soles. Cool tile shot new energy into each step. Her day had begun. Nothing mattered now. Not even stepping on a Lego brick.</span></div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-52146745472784409312015-08-16T16:08:00.000+05:302015-08-16T23:29:58.324+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 15 - Loss<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @shivom_oza: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whist a man - whose luggage had been misplaced by the airline - created a huge commotion at the airport, his co-passenger, who was traveling to collect his recently-deceased son's ashes, gave an expressionless stare to whoever came in his way while exiting.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's the thing about loss. We've got our own ways of coping with it.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan: </b></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">After all those years, my skin still yearns for your touch, I close my eyes, feel your fingertips on my back, those little pats of appreciation. They said ‘Time will heal’ but I’m not able to bury your memories, not a single one. You’re still alive through my heartbeats.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Will you return? Just for once! </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @nobar_code:</b> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her eyes were staring into eternity, her face stoic. It shouldn't have ended like this. Her dream run was over. She was written off, for the slightest to no blips, or did trivial things matter at all. "Women lacked the brute physical strength", that thought loomed large over her head. "What's the torque setting again?".</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @mMrunal: </b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="background: white; color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His first novel broke into the top-seller chart
within weeks. Motivated from this success, he looked forward to write a
thriller. He went back to his workspace, raced around with his creative mind
and started writing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, God had other plans for him. He met with a car accident.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="background: white; color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Memory loss changed the complete story.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #500050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>From @GmaneGawade: </b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A memory of this old lady from the time I was 4. Her kindness touching hearts. Her love unconditional and thoughts above the vanity of youth.I was growing up and she was growing old. All I could say to her ' Grandma I want you back right now'. Her eyes wide open. Her body still.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @4amThakkar: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"So, your graduation's done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What kind of girl are you?<br />
Family oriented or career oriented?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are your views modern or traditional?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What's next?<br />
Marriage or Masters?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do not wait too long. The good guys will be gone by
then."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was at a loss for words.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75"
coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe"
filled="f" stroked="f">
<v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/>
<v:formulas>
<v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/>
<v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/>
<v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/>
<v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/>
</v:formulas>
<v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/>
<o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/>
</v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_1" o:spid="_x0000_i1025" type="#_x0000_t75"
alt="Description: https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"
style='width:.75pt;height:.75pt;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square'>
<v:imagedata src="file:///C:\Users\VIVEK~1.TEJ\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.gif"
o:title="cleardot"/>
</v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><img alt="Description: https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" height="1" src="file:///C:\Users\VIVEK~1.TEJ\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.gif" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1" width="1" /><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="color: #500050;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stereotyping 'the fairer sex', one
woman at a time.</span><span style="background-color: #f1f1f1; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-46902961180076022742015-08-15T10:15:00.001+05:302015-08-15T10:15:02.773+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 14 - Cosmopolitan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @_TheQuietBelle_: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I never really did understand the concept of drinking away ones sorrows. For me, no answers lie at the bottom of that Cosmopolitan. For me, there is no respite, relief, reassurance in inebriation. For me, every drop of alcohol assimilates all the love I ever felt for you into a singular mass. Throbbing with yearning. Growing till it consumes me whole.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @banjaarann: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" She was a cosmopolitan, suppressed into her territory. The kind of a cocktail, that was a little inebriated and a lot sensed; yet filled in a glass!</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking out of the window, when the birds took flight in front of her, she gave a cry.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being an Indian girl is a very tough job! "</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729: </b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reginald Wrongflop Sauce lay in his hospital bed and plotted. The magazine would be called “<i>The Cosmopolitan Thinker</i>”, each month to contain a selection of 55 word pornographic stories.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“MR. SAUCE?”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He composed: “As she bent over to pick up the book, her ankle length skirt..”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“LETS DO OUR BLADDER IRRIGATION SHALL WE MR. SAUCE?”</span></div>
</div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-87842716819047417202015-08-14T22:49:00.001+05:302015-08-15T10:08:47.268+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 13 - Cocktail<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @thatdelhidamsel: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sit alone in my apartment. A brilliant book and some memories are by my side. It rains and I do not need music anymore. I need some time alone, with my heart and thoughts. Tonight I stay in, tonight I dwell and introspect. Tonight this coffee is my cocktail and the book is my friend.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @coffeedesk: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Nervous, she turned her head and smiled at him as warmly as she could muster. The tension between them was palpable. He smiled back as he flipped the switch. Those watching knew this cocktail would change everything.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">As she slipped away, she couldn’t help thinking about how much she wished this night would end.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @vanwynkle:</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He looked at his pregnant wife one last time. Images of his slain sister and mother flashed before his eyes. He was a potent cocktail of emotions. Revenge, ecstasy, guilt, anger; allowed to ferment over time but never watered down. She looked at him as if to ask something just as he pressed The Trigger. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Packing, the photo caught her eye. The sequinned cocktail dress sun flecked in the morning light, the degree hat amusingly askew. To cry, briefly, was to admit to a life pushed into the dull afternoon of an ordinary middle-age. The sharp frustration of tasks, the absence of achievement, the compensations of love. The child cried.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">A dimly-lit room and she slipped into her cozy bed with her only companion, a book.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A glowing lamp besides her bed, sheltering the verses of her favorite poetry book, word by word</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And prominent strings of Sarod were melting in her ears.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She too might be enjoying cocktail, of her kind, like everyone else. </span></div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-42668089151655460502015-08-13T09:22:00.000+05:302015-08-13T09:22:50.203+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 12 - Hypocrisy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @vanwynkle: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Words are like tissue paper. Do you think twice before picking one out, adorning it with mucus, and tossing it in the bin? Conviction shouldn’t be a prerequisite for speech, that’s stupid! There should be divergence between words and belief. Humanity is built on this solemn premise. How else will I run this ruddy nation?!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729:</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The dashing young Lord Macaulay tried to have sex with women, men, servants, cattle, stones, anything that would work for him – </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">anything</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, yet always the same feelings of shame, disgust, and humiliation. Luckily for him, he was able to put these experiences to good use when drafting Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729:</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His emaciated body now merely a cancer experiment, he had finally met himself, joyfully, “in that field beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing”. He resumed writing, “..he placed his hand on his back and kissed him, gently at first..”, but was interrupted:</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Sir! A priest is here with your wife, they're both very worried!”</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @leztah: </b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Knowledge is our only salvation”, he said, extolling the pursuit of wisdom. “Our bodies will rot, our beauty will fade. But it is our thoughts and ideas that will make us immortal. No beauty in this universe or any other equals that of an enlightened mind.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He swiped left on Tinder because she wore glasses.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan: </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">She has no character because she has a friend of another gender.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was raped because she was drunk.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was disowned because he forgot to ask whom to love.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was slapped because he was making love.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Confused me!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As per I know we inherited freedom, or hypocrisy?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isn’t Forced perception count as illegal?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From runwayrenegade:</b> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Countless nods, many obliging smiles and a thousand affirmative actions later, the façade was concrete. Truths merged with lies and lines were blurred. Which side was he on? His parents would have been ashamed. It’s a good thing they left. They couldn’t care for him and he couldn’t care less.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-7042253912014260972015-08-11T22:55:00.003+05:302015-08-12T09:23:43.790+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 11 - Owl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @thatdelhidamsel: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I look at them pass by. I judge and assess. I look at people fooling each other, loving each other and doing both of these at the same time. There's good and there's evil. There's truth and its flaws. There is love and then there is loss. I watch them, a denizen of the night. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @leztah: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Too wise for her age. A soul older than her waking years. She’d spend endless nights dispensing advice on Quora and hosting self-help and motivational podcasts. Her many admirers would fall in love with a façade. Come morning, the sun would be too high for a short, pudgy girl to look up and stare at.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From runawayrenegade: </b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Creature of the night, and purveyor of all that is wrong and right, the owl is faced with odds like no other. Jolly was not your average owl. She was the rebel who had risen against the coven. They all howled and cried foul, as a harbinger of love, light and good fortune she became.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @meetumeetu:</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Owls painted on her room’s wall, an origami owl, an owl locket in her necklace, now she wants an owl tattoo! Doctor, surely her psyche is saying something.”</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before the psychiatrist could say anything, the eleven year old said, “Mom, I’m wise in English and quite a fool in Hindi, doesn’t that say it all?”</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj4UPBlG5ThrIlwi8GQ1Hg5AJLVds5J3-YxIBHvcDltZ-3KCJdcoPDTjpRPh7hJdGlOByb0-Dcf3gDGP0v-Q0LdskyGUohAR9w4Oci7vfaLH8gsrOJH9lO37QA1eZP89TlS81Ej3l2iU-6/s1600/IMG_20150603_111610_HDR_1439302096045.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj4UPBlG5ThrIlwi8GQ1Hg5AJLVds5J3-YxIBHvcDltZ-3KCJdcoPDTjpRPh7hJdGlOByb0-Dcf3gDGP0v-Q0LdskyGUohAR9w4Oci7vfaLH8gsrOJH9lO37QA1eZP89TlS81Ej3l2iU-6/s320/IMG_20150603_111610_HDR_1439302096045.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729: </b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flesh loosely hung over old bones, “Owl41” sat down, opened “<a href="http://ask.fm/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">ask.fm</a>”, and asked yet another beautiful young lady if she was afraid of death. Alone in the grand old house where he had once run as a child, but that now seemed to be dying with him, neatly collating their responses nourished his threadbare existence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @dr_lucy_says: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Stepping into the water one last time,
he knew there won't be another. Still, he cast his net. It came back empty. He
couldn't stay any longer; the big yellow disk was gone. Back home, he stowed
away the catch which he would sell<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="aqj">tomorrow</span>. He then picked his books and headed towards the
school.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan:</b> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">'A Owl'</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'An… an owl, a,e,i,o,u articles?'</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Oh yes mumma! An Owl'</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I smiled. I was introduced with a new bird, An owl, lovely creature can rotate its neck 180 degrees, who stays awake at night, maybe shy? Like a newly bride with inquisitive eyes, and suddenly it turned into inauspicious.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: justify;">'We’re living in Stone-Age?' </span> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @CruciFire: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_536497615" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">2 am</span></span>*</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Hello, this is Preeti, how may I help you?”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I need two mouses.”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We don’t serve mouses.”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“How about a hare? One by two?”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Err, what?!”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Hares? Rabbits? How about some raw fish?”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Is this some kinda joke? Who is this?”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“This is Owl. You are TinyOwl, the food ordering service, right?”</span></span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-32842239497030992292015-08-11T22:49:00.000+05:302015-08-11T22:49:00.668+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 10 - Sulphur<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He named the nurses after the elements; Hydrogen, a sweet smile; Sulphur, a little clumsy sometimes; Beryllium with her tinkling earrings. Machines, prognoses, the suns faint praise on the ceiling in the evenings, the possibilities of life reduced to which way to try and turn. It was Beryllium who found him, dead, at 4.21 a.m.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan:</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">“Sulphur store is trending on twitter.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“S —Atomic no. 16 —The burning train… Err The burning stone? Oh! Man, a decade passed yet chemistry following me.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“She suffered, she fought and she was assaulted brutally at that night, humanity leading towards doomsday. Such a monster.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“What was that?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Let it be.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @CruciFire: </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Happy sweet 16, my dear S.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a bottle of Shiraz to kick off your journey through the better things in life.”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*She took the first sip and fell down grabbing her neck*</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Now, to find a 32 year old, in his/her 6<sup>th</sup> week.”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*He put on a hat and shades and walked away.*</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @mMrunal: </b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I think we should part our ways now. We both have a completely different perspective for future. Moreover, I think you deserve someone better than me. I need a break from you."</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His face suddenly took on a morose expression.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seeing her kissing his classmate the very next day acted as sulphur for his hellfire.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @aaroo4: </b></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The streets were empty,a single light glowed in the dark, giving him hope. He rushed in, bought the pill and raced home. His grandmother swallowed it in a gulp .Heaving a sigh of relief, he sat on the bed. A minute later a gasp broke the silence and he heard “Does it contain sulphur?”</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-39771849275141538002015-08-09T23:02:00.002+05:302015-08-10T00:02:22.918+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 9 - Hidden<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @roshd: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It is not you, it’s me”</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“ I know, why don’t you open up more? What’s with the long, brooding silences?”</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A long silence was her reply. Again. </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He put his arm around her and squeezed her tightly. Again. </span><span style="line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">In his book, love meant making her comfortable not stripping her down to her naked soul.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729: </b></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“His ass. An ass nations could go to war over.”</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: normal;">“David, <i>vulgarity</i> – and at a wedding!”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: normal;"><br />“Updating a classical text! Helen of Troy – '<i>The face that launched a thousand ships</i>'? It's a noble sentiment!”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: normal;">“We should write a queer <i>Iliad</i> and <i>Odyssey</i>!”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: normal;"><br />“Greek literature: the gay version!”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hidden in society, hidden in literature.</span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan:</b> </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">Just a crumpled paper, inked with few words, she put it close to her rib-cage and struggled with entanglements, ‘these Y-generation kids would never able to decipher handwritten letters’. She glared at wet paper again— </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">whispering name, sense of belonging, warmth of memories and hidden promises</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">— touched her misty eyes. ‘Email? Mere cold love’ </span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>From @thatdelhidamsel: </b></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I look at him from the corner of my eye. I conceal my thoughts behind the curtains of my mind. Will he ever know? Will I ever show? My love remains alien and forbidden. I'm not afraid of rejection, but am afraid of commitment. I'm broken and living an eternal winter, and this remains hidden.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">From @oink1729: </b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.2000007629395px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></b></span>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reginald Wrongflop Sauce had an idea for a blog, “55wordporn”.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a reverie he composed the first entry: “She turned around, the sunlight coruscating through her hair..”</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“MR. SAUCE CAN YOU HEAR ME?”</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Lets get your teeth in and take you to the toilet Mr. Sauce, your children are visiting later.”</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"></span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: start;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah! Joyful hidden inner-life!</span></div>
</div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-39489196424355029462015-08-09T11:06:00.001+05:302015-08-09T11:06:46.282+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 8 - Her<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>From @oink1729:</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">After the storm, the plastic chairs and table washed of our
laughter. Thin puddles reflecting an empty sky, wine glasses half full of
rainwater. Indoors, the sofa we fucked on, a leering vacancy. Her husband will
meet her about now, I thought, clearing up. And I'm supposed to find it funny,
or not to care.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>From @tweettabulous: </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Who knew things were about to change? Suddenly I was expected to be more
responsible and lead by example. Everything I owned wasn't mine anymore.
Conflicting emotions, insecure mind and alien concept of sharing had to be
adapted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">But, I'd give up the world to make her smile. My favorite prayer come
true. My sister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan: </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In the silence, she was surrounded with nothing
but shattered pieces of her silenced voice. She felt suffocated amidst a
millions of verbal presents bestowed upon her last night. Her dream vanished
into cold tears. “Abort her” her man’s words still babbling in her ears and
made her suspicious “does she really own her body.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>From @_souringpie: </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">This word primarily made you think of someone,
maybe your mother, wife, daughter, grandmother, sister, friend, girlfriend, crush,
celebrity or fictional character. Perhaps your story doesn’t feature them.
She’s nonetheless imprinted into your subconscious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Do yourself a favor. Show her how special she
is to you. Revive your own story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">For
You and For Her. </span></div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-47008003354499628652015-08-08T17:05:00.002+05:302015-08-08T17:05:54.755+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 7 - Transformation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @thatdelhidamsel: </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I waited in the hallway. My Mom had been gone for hours. My heart was contracting in my chest, my world was intertwining around it. The reports came and were normal. I sobbed and hugged Mom. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">That's when she said: You're not my little girl anymore. You held me when I fell. You're my support.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @oink1729:</span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Cunnilingus, your majesty, is the name of a baby elephant, recently born to much joy in the great city of Hyderabad.”. Most unfortunately for my ancestor Timothy Wrongflop, this “witticism” was taken as serious knowledge by the prince regent, and used to impress princess Eugene. The transformation from valued courtier to prison was swiftly completed.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @aaroo4: </span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">With every word, her hopes came crashing down.It was the only thing she had dreamt off. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The look of triumph crept in slowly making him look like a demon possesed.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">She looked up, stood ground, said "No, I don't agree" and calmly walked out.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">He stared..speechless. "whaa. you..."</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>From @TheQuietBelle_ :</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The long tresses, the kohl lining her eyes, the touch of the lipstick, the dress, the heels, the new curves of her body. Everything felt so new. So unfamiliar. Yet so familiar. So right. After years of fighting her natural form, the transformation had finally arrived. Bruce was now Caitlyn.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @CruciFire: </span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I don’t have talent, a job, or a girl. My life sucks big time, Optimus!”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Sam Witwicky, empirical evidence is applicable to perceptual experience. The deeper reality of existence transcends sensory experience. Consciousness is universal. Perspective is personal.”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“What the fuck are you talking about?”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sam watches as the Autobot Leader transforms into Deepak Chopra.</span></span></div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-62187984478892948272015-08-07T14:02:00.000+05:302015-08-07T19:55:57.155+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 6 - Ennui<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @CruciFire: </span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“NOOOOOOOOOOO…”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His voice trailed off as he got pulled into the abyss.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“SOMEONE HELP ME…”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dirty face. Muddy hands. Scraped knees.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unable to breathe, he tried to stand up.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*1 message received*</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Wanna catch up over a drink?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edge of a cliff. Warm sunshine. Morning breeze.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Dude, you have *no* idea how bored I was!”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @DNRamki: </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He had established a routine. He’d wake up, check Twitter, and head off to work. Ideas would appear in his head, but often went unheeded. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Late in the night, he’d sit in the darkness, gather those ideas, sift through them, and pen down 55 words. </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One day, he woke up, and the words had stopped.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From @_ankitachauhan: </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">'Reading and always reading, don’t you ever get bored? If I were you I would have already died of ennui.’ Her perplexing eyes triggered a question at him.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Have you ever dealt with the waves of hollowness inside you? I just want to crack that silhouette of monotonous life.’ And he teetered over to bookshelves. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ennui as wide as the manicured lawn. The blue sky locked onto the high walls of Wrongflop mansions, the silence indoors, the ivory chess pieces catching the sun, the fountains endlessly recycling their water. Days defined only by waking and sleeping. Those kind of empty days. And still no news from London! What had happened?</span></span></div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5388637443539171742.post-45269397977256117382015-08-07T13:52:00.002+05:302015-08-07T13:52:30.719+05:3055wordstory - Season 4 - Theme 5 - Method<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @_ankitachauhan: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">‘What is the exact method to be an author?’</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Procedure? You should read and read like nothing else exists.’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘I did read thousand of books but, words perished when I try to put them down on paper.’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Then you would have excluded the meeting with a stranger, who wanted to be listened. That was You.’ </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @banjaarann: </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was a carefree girl empowering others. All he could read of me was pain and unfulfilled dreams. Slowly, he convinced me of sadness, and with time he became my only relief.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The day reality struck me, I ran home only to find an empty house.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~sometimes pain becomes a method, to leave people handicapped!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @rishabism:</b> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ravi experienced an almost sudden tingling sensation to live with methods -cleanliness, punctuality, diet, and basically all the other things which used to annoy him at home. Suddenly, those methods served as desperation for a familiar world. But methods need tough authority. His attempts to replicate those methods were initially painful, and subsequently a myth.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @mMrunal:</b> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Try to feel the pain which he might be going through in that particular situation. Try to imagine yourself in his place." </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The scene went perfect. Everyone burst into tears.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Little did they know, he had been rehearsing for the scene since childhood. A dyslexic child battled his way out to become a method actor.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @CruciFire: </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born out of torture, moulded by hate; he forged on.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bomb blasts. Security intrusions.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">System crashes. Stock manipulations.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bank robberies. Parliamentary attacks.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Legal system collapse. Media blackouts.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A method to madness, only he understood.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A mask, only they understood.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Remember, remember the 5th of November”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When anarchy struck, he became immortal.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the country, free!</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @DNRamki: </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He muttered to himself as he picked up the books, carefully shelving them. He'd successfully completed his catalogue. He'd sorted them by author, year, genre, age, series and several other details. He could point out exactly where each book had been kept.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She walked in, pulled out a book and left. She couldn't care less.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From @oink1729: </b></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Methods, assuming a perfectly repeatable and ordered reality, falsify it. There is nothing more dangerous to the human soul than a method!”. It was an interesting defence to a serious traffic violation, and one I hadn't heard before. “I'll have to take your name madam.”.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<i>The</i> Dame Gender Wrongflop?”. I let her go, of course.</span></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</div>
Vivek Tejujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07686258084293371624noreply@blogger.com1