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365Fiction365Fiction365Fiction is an attempt to publish a brand new short story every day for an entire year. Articles
Interview
2007-09-01 05:07:00 Nina was scheduled to interview a man she thought was too rich for people to know nothing about. There was no information on the Internet or in the press material she was sent before the interview. All she knew about Nikhil Malhotra was that he had made a lot of money and he had made ... More About: Interview , The Stories
Casting Couch
2007-08-31 04:05:00 The assistant led the actress into the office and instructed her to sit down, on the snowy white couch facing the desk. The actress found that a little surprising because there were two perfectly good chairs much closer to the desk of the man she was there to meet. Still she knew better than to ... More About: Casting , Couch , The Stories
Storyteller
2007-08-30 03:05:00 The wind had a high voice, like an opera singer about to hit that tremulous note that drove large-bosomed women with blue hair to tears. She snuggled up into the crook of his arm and leaned her head on his shoulder, in such a way that it prompted him to give thanks to all the ... More About: The Stories , Tory
Stalker, Three O?Clock
2007-08-29 04:52:00 She had a lot of men in her life and she hated every one of them. Maybe because they were around for some of the most embarrassing moments of her life. That time she ended up drunkenly making out in the backseat of a car with the mother of two she had met just that ... More About: Clock , Stalker , The Stories , Talker
The Pinup
2007-08-28 05:01:00 They passed each other like they had already done a few hundred times before. She was hot, not just because she had been sweating away at her twice-weekly cardio workout but because she was blessed with a genetic distillation of what her father put in her mother designed to elicit envy and catcalls in equal ... More About: The Stories , Pinup
Graffiti
2007-08-26 23:26:00 The shadowy individual in the dark hoodie and baggy jeans withdrew a spray can from a deep pocket and shook it. The beads rattled against the walls of the can, signalling the commencement of a graffiti artist?s work. With a final flourish the lid was popped and paint hissed across the uneven wall in smooth ... More About: Graffiti , The Stories
Movie Star
2007-08-26 04:09:00 He was in a supermarket, they were in a supermarket actually but when he told the story in later years he would neglect to include the presence of his best friend at the time at the scene of the occasion. They were discussing what else would go into their punch and what other snacks or ... More About: Movie , Star , The Stories
The Cool Kids
2007-08-25 03:19:00 They were fairly unobtrusive at a party which wasn?t a particularly raucous affair to begin with. If anyone had stopped to think about it they would have realized that before the night was through someone would be too drunk to remember how she got home the following morning; someone else would have puked all over ... More About: Kids , Cool , The Stories , Cool Kids
Speedy Date
2007-08-24 04:41:00 They turned up in front of each other, two unlikely people at a speed-dating session. ?So,? she said, pen hovering over a square he couldn?t see, ?What do you do?? He looked from the pen that looked poised to strike to the eyes that had already struck and forced a smile, ?Aren?t you supposed to ... More About: The Stories , Speedy
Dirty Old Man
2007-08-23 03:18:00 He felt like a man in a mid-life crisis. He was not yet thirty-five and he wondered whether that meant that the crises were coming earlier or whether he was destined to have a short life. Either way he didn?t think he?d like the answer. He couldn?t quite put his finger on it but his ... More About: Dirty , The Stories
Bollywood Blag
2007-08-22 05:32:00 He arrived in Bollywood like so many aspirants before him, alone and clueless. He was shocked to find so many people clustered in so little place. He was impressed to find so many movie screens catering to such a small geographical area. He was heartened to see the logos of major motion picture and television ... More About: The Stories , Olly
Love Potion Number??
2007-08-21 06:22:00 Her cellphone beeped. She wasn?t expecting to hear from anybody so she checked the message with a curious frown. The message was a phone number and a name, Madan Turakhia. It sounded like the name of a college professor or some guy who would be friends with her father. She really didn?t know what to ... More About: Love , The Stories , Number
Mumblecore
2007-08-20 05:07:00 They saw each other over the fuzzy tops of ice-cream cones. Fuzzy because their near vision was blurred from squinting hard to focus on the person so far away, to try and figure out what he/she looked like. They might have been low-key individuals but that was not to say that they weren?t looks-oriented. ?Looks ... More About: The Stories
Clubbing Amnesia
2007-08-19 04:03:00 His head was pounding like a donkey trying to escape a bass drum. He scratched himself and wandered around the flat, feeling like he was seeing everything for the first time. It all looked familiar and yet it didn?t feel like any of it was his stuff. He frowned at the thought then dismissed it ... More About: Clubbing , The Stories , Bing
Saturday
2007-08-18 07:04:00 They shook hands with all the affection of boxers in a ring. Though they were making cordial sounds his eyes flashed his cavalier disregard for her presence and hers flashed anger without even trying. He was already at the restaurant when she walked in wearing an incredibly flattering dress and bearing a handbag big enough ... More About: Saturday
Routine Transaction
2007-08-17 05:51:00 They were in bed. The cinematic cliché of a cigarette after sex was in attendance. Though they were both naked one was a little less comfortable than the other. She took a drag and passed it over and the action more than the smell betrayed the ?cigarette? as something more than just tobacco and chemicals ... More About: The Stories , Tran , Ansa
Hard Town
2007-08-16 03:27:00 ?The big bruiser walking towards me looked pissed, and not in a nice way. His face was all scrunched up and his eyes were all squinty, it wasn?t a pretty sight. And he said, ?Hey man are you stupid or do you just need me to draw you a road map with your elbow and ... More About: Hard , Town , The Stories
Independence Of Thought
2007-08-15 05:37:00 She went through life believing that all people were essentially good. It was how she was able to make sense of the world. He always told her that people would screw her over the first chance they got. She called him Mr. GHE, he didn?t think that was either funny or catchy. They had been together ... More About: Thought , Independence , The Stories , Epen
Breaking In
2007-08-14 07:58:00 It was the question he dreaded more than any other question. Which was saying a lot considering that he was more comfortable discussing the amount of money he made or the type of sex he liked to have. So when the woman he had just been introduced to spoke those dreaded words, ?So what do ... More About: Breaking , The Stories , Brea , Breakin
Studio Head
2007-08-13 06:21:00 He was asking questions even before they were in the same room together. Seeing his mate walk past the window was enough, ?Where the hell have you been?? The excuses cycled between five or six options and it was ?traffic? that day. He shook his head and went back to snipping the unwanted off their potted plants, ... More About: Studio , Head , The Stories
Empty
2007-08-12 05:05:00 If all you?ve ever been guilty of is love, do you deserve to be punished? That was the question Emily asked herself as she watched Brandon walk away from her, possibly forever. He didn?t look over his shoulder or even raise a palm in a backwards wave. He just kept walking, at an even pace, neither ... More About: The Stories , Empty
Adventure
2007-08-11 04:35:00 It was hot and the sweat was threatening to make her the unslightliest mess a girl could ever hope to avoid being. She didn?t want to be walking but it didn?t appear that she had a choice. Somehow it was imperative for her to keep going. She didn?t know why. She felt like she was ... More About: Adventure , Vent , Advent
Paparazzi Fodder
2007-08-10 05:29:00 Nobody knew who she was or where she had come from but everybody knew what she looked like. Photographs of her buying milk, leaving the supermarket, walking up the stairs to a friend?s home, kneeling on the street to play with a neighbour?s child in a pram were splashed all over the supermarket tabloids. To ... More About: Paparazzi
Hump Day
2007-08-09 07:28:00 It was that kind of night, they were those kinds of friends and he had exactly the kind of memories a guy is expected to have after spending that kind of time at the bottom of several containers of fiery spirits. His name was Vikram and he liked to think his life was almost exactly ... More About: Hump
Temporary Escape
2007-08-08 05:38:00 It wasn?t so much the light at the end of the tunnel as it was the light under the door. She knew he was home and she knew she had to get out all the same. She wondered whether this was how teenagers felt when they tried to sneak out for a bit of DD ... More About: Escape , Scape , Esca , Temp
Tug Of War
2007-08-07 07:00:00 They were seated opposite each other like chess players or arm wrestlers. There wasn?t a friendly expression to be found anywhere in the vicinity of their table. She fired the first salvo, ?Why am I here?? He tensed up so suddenly it was as if the man had been replaced with his waxworks dummy in the ...
Wheels Of Progress
2007-08-06 03:30:00 What does it all mean? It was his favourite question to ask. Not that he ever bothered to wait for an answer. It allowed him the opportunity to continue to ?hold the serve? in a manner of speaking in our verbal tennis and he didn?t feel guilty about not letting someone else decide what conversational ball ... More About: Progress , Wheels , Heels , Heel , Eels
Forum
2007-08-05 07:59:00 They were laughing so hard tears were streaming down their eyes and yet, it didn?t look like a gathering of happy people. To look at them, was to lay eyes upon a group of people doing well enough to afford the accoutrements that a certain status brings with it. Louis Vuitton bags sat like overfed ... More About: Forum
Looking In
2007-08-04 06:11:00 It could never be said that Basheer didn?t carry around with him a healthy dose of paranoia. A child of the adoption agency system, he had lived his early years as an uprooted child between orphanages in some of the worst-hit Middle Eastern conflict zones. He learnt to understand several languages from being in the ... More About: Look
One Note
More articles from this author:2007-08-03 04:14:00 It all started with the singing. She knew he was a performer and she loved him for it. She paid money to go see him that first time. She had heard good things and she was determined to try and catch an act or two in her life who were on their way up so ... More About: Note 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
