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Domestic Drama
2007-08-02 04:09:00
The questions began even before he was properly through the door. ?Where have you been?? ?Out.? ?It?s three-thirty in the morning.? ?I couldn?t sleep.? ?Is there someone else?? ?Isn?t there always?? ?Are you trying to make me cry, first thing in the morning?? ?That would depend.? ?On what?? ?Whether you can go back to bed without all these questions before I?ve even got my shoes ...
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Arrangement
2007-08-01 04:02:00
It had all begun with his mistaking a signal from her one drunken evening. That misinterpretation had caused him to try to kiss her. She had tasted of coconut rum and peaches and her hair had smelt fresh and clean even though people were smoking all around them. They continued to go out together but the kiss was not repeated. He knew why but he didn’t like it. His name was Rohan Grover and he was the type of guy who could have any woman he wanted in any room he happened to be in. Not because he was good-looking. Because even though he was he had seen enough goddesses with complete toads to understand that looks didn’t always factor in the male-female attraction equation. He was wealthy enough that he could prove attractive to a woman for more than one reason. He had fucked more than his share of women on the mere strength of who he was so he knew how fortunate he was to live in an environment where the consequences of a person’s actions could very often be repaired with the ri...
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Traffic Snarl
2007-07-31 04:19:00
They were in the car and it occurred to him that this particular edition of ?they? spent a great deal of time in transit. It wasn?t a bad thing, just a thing. He could be relied on to think of things like that and he could be relied on to get into trouble for saying ...
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Violence Is Golden
2007-07-30 05:09:00
He was high enough above everyone else that no one could see him unless they were specifically looking for him. Even then the looker needed a special eye. An eye with the ability to differentiate the obvious from the not until they had separated all the unnecessary information from the pertinent and were able to ...
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Betrayal
2007-07-29 05:49:00
The sonorous voice of the priest intoned the words in the only way he knew how, ?Roland Rozario was a good man?? Hope you know what you?re doing boss? Salvador was the only person dressed in formal funeral attire. He looked like a Salvador right from his black, intensely polished black shoes to the shiny surface of ...
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Bloody Disgrace
2007-07-28 03:48:00
She wasn?t just attractive, she was hot. In a way that made the poets among her many suitors bemoan the fact that ‘hot’ was just a three-letter word. She dealt with all the attention like a pro who knew no other state of life. She was always in training and there wasn?t a single person, ...
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Uneasy Companions
2007-07-27 02:31:00
He woke to what felt like a thin warm stream of fluid on his face. He started and sat up.  The threadbare sheets on the smelly floor were rumpled and the layers of dust that had coated the window panes over the years made it difficult for him to tell what time it was. He ...
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Dialogue over Dumbbells
2007-07-26 04:08:00
They were shoulder to shoulder in the gymnasium. The younger man was putting away his dumbbells when he noticed the older guy looking at him. Their eyes met for a brief moment and the older man said, ?I?ve been watching you for the past six or seven weeks now.? The younger man was about to ...
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90210Insider
2007-07-25 04:30:00
To follow him by the clicking of his heels on the marble floor was to feel like one was in pursuit of a moody typewriter gone miraculously mobile. The way he was avoiding other people in the crowded lobby gave his footfalls a rhythmic resemblance to glitch-pop. Not that he cared, he was too focused ...
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Would Stalk
2007-07-24 04:38:00
To look at their excitement was to think that they were indulging in the adolescent practice of surfing porn. No two guys were allowed to look that excited if they weren?t looking at pictures of naked chicks. There was clearly a leader and a follower and the leader had control of the keyboard and the ...
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Beautiful Day
2007-07-23 04:23:00
It was a beautiful day and he was taking a walk, from the place where he lived to the place where he worked because it was a half hour he would gladly spend to enjoy the sunshine and the cool breeze that turned corners around the architecture and caressed people and pets alike. He was ...
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Warped Fairytale
2007-07-22 08:33:00
He was tired. He had been sitting at the computer terminal for close to thirteen hours and his shoulders had become so stiff that he felt like his head was being propped up on rocks. The muscles in his neck felt like they had gone into arrest, he expected to become a twitching wreck that ...
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How It Ends
2007-07-21 05:25:00
They were gathered at a coffee shop in the right part of town sipping coffee and trying to avoid each other?s eyes. Michelle and Vinay had been going out for less than six months even though they had known each other for nearly five years. Kamal and Nikhil had also been dating but nobody could ...
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Survivor
2007-07-20 12:34:00
They were going around the stationary merry-go-round of cheap folding chairs. Some of them were sitting forward like they might be suffering cramps or motion sickness. Others sat back, were slouched over or had scooted their asses so far forward that they were in danger of sliding off their chairs and damaging their spines en ...
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Mumbai In The Rearview
2007-07-19 09:22:00
The crushed cola can clattered across the road surprisingly loudly and scared a sleeping cat in the process. She paused and glared at him and when it was clear that he wasn?t going to back down she walked away with her tail raised like a barren flagpole. He looked around for other things to kick ...
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Kinky
2007-07-18 06:45:00
He was coercing her with all the intensity of a fifteen-year-old trying to get his girlfriend to let him go up her skirt. He would never have agreed to the term coercing, choosing to use words like coaxing or convincing instead but it was coercion in the same way that unwanted babies being aborted across ...
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Wish Come True
2007-07-17 06:39:00
He found her lying on the floor and his first reaction was fear. On too many occasions in the heat of the rage that seared their incessant arguments he had privately wished for her to drop dead. Seeing her lying there brought that wish to mind and the possibility that it had come true. He ...
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Abort! Abort! Abort!
2007-07-16 07:16:00
The waiting area was a corridor with a patio overlooking other buildings where umbrella-shaded chairs sat in silence. The sounds that were a constant in a place where silence was valued were crows taking flight, nurses walking by in ones and two and air-conditioners. The crows squawked and cawed with nary a care for the ...

Torture Porn
2007-07-15 06:10:00
They gathered once a week, sometimes less frequently, to chat; which is not to say that it was an informal gathering of friends. At some point, in nightclubs and restaurants around the city, several members of the film fraternity had heard snatches of conversation, always led by the same man. He wasn?t particularly scholarly to ...
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Separated By Tracks
2007-07-14 08:10:00
He shook the two canisters like they were maracas and he was keeping the beat for a legendary band of musicians. Then he cracked them open and dropped the liquids inside into the centre of a cold glass where their colours danced with each other until they had blended into one inviting whole. She watched ...
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Captive
2007-07-13 03:37:00
The fingers that caressed the side of her face did not belong to a lover. If they did, he would not be a lover for long. She hadn?t yet decided, or perhaps the many levels of her consciousness hadn?t agreed upon whether she should be scared. She was definitely not in her favourite position but ...

Easy Way
2007-07-12 07:26:00
He really was tired. Tired of all the bullshit and the lies and tired of having to second guess everybody or fear that he had misinterpreted everything that was said. He didn?t think it was entirely his fault because how many different ways are there to interpret the words, ?I like you?? But somehow, just ...
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Distance
2007-07-11 07:08:00
They were lying on the bonnet of his car staring up at the sky. Nighttime had arrived but it would be a while before the sky was dark enough for the stars to show. The moon was already up but the dark side was more purple-orange than it was black. All he had to do ...

Crazier Love
2007-07-10 05:04:00
They exchanged glances. Nobody blinked. She realised how ridiculous it all was so she threw her arms up and said, ?This is not working!? He went after her, grabbed her arm and turned her around, got her to face him even though she wouldn?t look into his eyes, ?Come on, what did we decide?? She knew the ...
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The Pitch
2007-07-09 03:39:00
Six eyes were staring directly at him and it was difficult for him to judge if any of them were friendly eyes. It was an uncomfortable position for him to be in. The worst of it was that they weren?t even seated before him in a straight line. Each of them had taken up position ...
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Pick Up Lies
2007-07-08 07:05:00
It was not the happiest place in the world but it would do. The waiters and other sundry staff ran to take up positions on the high walls as the first notes of that hoary old musical chestnut filtered through the giant speakers. When they first adopted the shapes that dominate the chorus of YMCA, ...
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Mission
2007-07-07 08:51:00
They were walking down the street. In and of itself, that was no major event. They had walked down hundreds of streets before. The only reason this was different was because they had purpose. They did a lot of things together and it often bothered Saumya to think that there might never be a space ...
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Post Modern Realities
2007-07-06 05:51:00
Very early on in the redevelopment of the town after the dawning of the Post Modern era the town elders had gathered together to decide the way forward for themselves and all the people that had placed themselves in their care. One of the earliest decisions made at the time was that if they were going ...
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Casting
2007-07-05 10:08:00
For the first time in their lives Vivek and Assad were working towards something they believed in. If anyone had seen it that way for them they would have quickly retreated to their separate corners and claimed that they didn?t really care. They were too committed to their own self-images of disaffected youth to allow ...
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Wife Strife
2007-07-04 07:48:00
Harish Makhija was an unhappy man. His unhappiness had become the source of great wealth for him but that didn?t change his state of mind. With each passing day he was getting increasingly dissatisfied with remaining unhappy while taking the money. He didn?t know how and he didn?t know when but he was determined to ...
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