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365Fiction365Fiction365Fiction is an attempt to publish a brand new short story every day for an entire year. Articles
Wild Child
2007-06-02 01:05:00 They called her Wild Child , for a number of reasons. ?They? were anybody from the adults in positions of authority to the kids who were her peers. They didn?t have to know her, some of them hadn?t even met her and a few referred to her that way even though they didn?t know what she ...
Crippled
2007-06-01 06:47:00 Kim was visiting Mumbai for the first time. Not many people knew if Kim was his first or last name though there was no denying his Asian origins. He had been sent to evaluate a facility his people had been doing business with for several years. Recently, the facility had begun to exhibit a slowdown ... More About: Ripple
Falling Star
2007-05-31 06:41:00 His name was Farid and he was nursing a Tiger at New Asia Bar. As he looked around the darkened innards of the bar seventy stories above the glittering island city he had to wonder what was truly new about the bar. Sure the décor was ?modern? and the music was almost post-modern in its ... More About: Star , Fall
Bonded Labour
2007-05-30 06:05:00 ?Tell me that you love me.? ?I love you.? ?Tell me that you think I could be a big star.? ?You could be a big star.? ?Tell me you?ll help me.? ?You know I?d love to.? She twisted his testicles really hard and though he wanted to scream from the pain he ended up groaning into the hand she clamped over ... More About: Labour
Black Widow
2007-05-29 07:34:00 The blonde was all sex and shanti, served on a platter of old skool hip-hop. Content in her discontent with the state of the world she was prompted to do little other than let it be the way it already was. Making the planet different was out of the question for her kind so there ... More About: Black , Lack
What The Hell
2007-05-28 06:59:00 When he took off his shirt, he did so with pride because he probably saw a man in his prime when looked in the mirror. She saw a man who hadn?t given up on his body even though his body had given up on him. She thought it was attractive in a low-key, almost loser, ... More About: Hell
Art World Hook-Up
2007-05-27 05:52:00 ?Does it ever feel like life as we once knew it and the things we held so dear are now merely memories? And faulty ones at that? For I am no longer my brother?s keeper or my father?s son though that relationship still exists and so does the other one. I?m too far gone now, ... More About: World , Hook Up , Hook
Art World Hook-Up
2007-05-27 05:52:00 ?Does it ever feel like life as we once knew it and the things we held so dear are now merely memories? And faulty ones at that? For I am no longer my brother?s keeper or my father?s son though that relationship still exists and so does the other one. I?m too far gone now, ... More About: World , Hook Up , Hook
Art World Hook-Up
2007-05-27 05:52:00 ?Does it ever feel like life as we once knew it and the things we held so dear are now merely memories? And faulty ones at that? For I am no longer my brother?s keeper or my father?s son though that relationship still exists and so does the other one. I?m too far gone now, ... More About: World , Hook Up , Hook
Art World Hook-Up
2007-05-27 05:52:00 ?Does it ever feel like life as we once knew it and the things we held so dear are now merely memories? And faulty ones at that? For I am no longer my brother?s keeper or my father?s son though that relationship still exists and so does the other one. I?m too far gone now, ... More About: World , Hook Up , Hook
Art World Hook-Up
2007-05-27 05:52:00 ?Does it ever feel like life as we once knew it and the things we held so dear are now merely memories? And faulty ones at that? For I am no longer my brother?s keeper or my father?s son though that relationship still exists and so does the other one. I?m too far gone now, ... More About: World , Hook Up , Hook
Eternity
2007-05-26 06:23:00 All he really wanted her to do was shut up. It didn?t seem like too much to ask but there was no silencing her even when she was asleep. He had lost count of the nights he had been woken by her inarticulate ramblings. Sometimes she hit out in the dark. Rarely connected with anything ... More About: Eternity
Carnal Retribution
2007-05-25 05:58:00 Her mascara was streaking down her cheeks at an alarming rate. If she didn?t know better she?d think the stuff was waterier than usual. Actually she didn?t know better. She wasn?t really an expert when it came to evaluating the thickness of mascara and the speed it would run at in various situations. She was ... More About: Tribu
Retribution by Committee
2007-05-24 07:43:00 He was a pot-bellied man, middle class in every respect, with the characteristic diffidence that is the aura such a man bears when a television camera is pointed at him. He would probably gather family and friends to sit around the colour television that held pride of place in the family living to room to ... More About: Comm , Committee , Tribu , Mitt , Mitte
Travel Dilemma
2007-05-23 06:38:00 It was always the same before a trip. A certain fear that gripped him. It was difficult to clearly articulate the source or the reason for the fear. It hung over him like a sickly aura or the static electricity that sometimes sticks clothes to skin in a not entirely unpleasant manner. If he tired ... More About: Travel , Dilemma , Emma , Dile
Threshold
2007-05-22 06:51:00 ?You?re making me angry, please stop.? ?Or what? You?re going to go all green and big and hairy and smash the shit out of the city? I don?t think so.? ?I?m serious man. Don?t make me angry. It?s not a good thing to do.? ?First of all, all I did was ask you how it feel to have ... More About: Hold
Apples and Lozenges
2007-05-21 08:04:00 He wasn?t quite what she expected. It was a fact of life she had learnt to live with. Like the time she switched from the PC to the Mac. It was a sexy machine. All silvery and slim with little pieces of attractive minutiae like the keyboard that lit up and the magnetic power cord plug. It ... More About: Apples
Creative Solution
2007-05-20 06:06:00 ?What?s it going to take?? She was at that stage in the process where answering was not immediately essential. He was keeping his distance, leaning against the wall, his fingers gripping the window sill. It looked like a casual image to the cursory eye. In truth he was hanging on with all he had. His fingers were already going ... More About: Creative , Solution
Uprooted
2007-05-19 07:01:00 The sun was up; the air was hot, sticky and humid. It wasn?t yet nine in the morning and already it was threatening to be the kind of day during which clothes stuck to a person?s back. The thing he hated most was when his pants stuck to the back of his thighs. Or his boxers ... More About: Root
Purveyors
2007-05-18 05:29:00 They just really didn?t get it at all. How could they? The connection between their brains and their hearts had been closed off. They were adults. Not information-overloaded, time-wasting, attitude-absorbing, world-hating, group-hugging psychos with a taste for the thrills of easy sex, unreal violence and a lack of interest in repercussions. They wouldn?t know a really bad ...
Different Rules
2007-05-17 05:18:00 The curls of cigarette smoke rose between them like really thin barriers; as genuinely pointless as lightning-proofing a person. She was sitting back, he was hunched forward and anybody who cared to look over would have known that all was not well. Nobody cared. People were not concerned with the problems of beautiful people. They ... More About: Rules , Rent , Rule , Diff
Life Skids To A Halt
2007-05-16 06:42:00 It all began with a phone call. She stepped out onto the street to try and get a clear signal, to understand what he was saying because she knew how much he hated it if he had to repeat himself when he was yelling at someone. This was neither new nor unusual and she silently cursed ... More About: Life
Looks Like Rain
2007-05-15 06:35:00 He looked out the window and thought, it smells like rain. It?s only May. May was struggling to hold on, one half was already in the shredder but still, it was only May! What the hell was the air doing, smelling like rain in the middle of May? He knew how it would play out. A week or ... More About: Rain , Like , Look , Looks
Queens Of College
2007-05-14 07:14:00 ?You?re really just queen of all you survey aren?t you?? He was looking at her with affection rather than envy. She loved him for that. She looked around the crowded cafeteria, nodded, and stuck her tongue out at him, ?Yeah. So what?? ?Nothing. I think it?s awesome.? ?You?re jealous.? ?I?m going to lose respect for you if you insist ... More About: College , Queens , Coll
First Time Director
2007-05-13 07:08:00 ?I?m not going to quote another filmmaker or studio boss, that is something I?m just not going to do. I?m not going to use Tarantino or Scorcese or Coppola or Oliver Stone or Hitchcock or anyone else to prove a point. Talking about those people in the same breath as my work is like all ... More About: Time , First , First Time , Director , Dire
Hostage Situation
2007-05-12 07:44:00 ?Has it ever occurred to you that we work so hard to protect what was never ever really ours?? The man had a gun, what were they going to do? Disagree? Which is not to say he didn?t have a point. It?s just bad manners to try and press a point when you?re holding a loaded ... More About: Stage , Situation , Hostage
New Clear Perspective
2007-05-11 07:57:00 ?I knocked up my wife and then I ran away,? the man who said that to me looked like the most miserable person in the world. I should know. I had seen my share of misery. I had borne witness to enough suffering by others to recognise the real thing. I don?t use the term ... More About: Clear , Perspective
Together Forever
2007-05-10 07:08:00 They were spent, yet somehow unable to let go. Satisfied, yet greedy for more. Eyes locked like twin tractor beams that were only complete when they overlapped. The heaving of their chests was matched by the frenzy of an audience united by their love of the spectacle. They were pressed together, hip to sternum and ... More About: Forever , Together , Ever , Fore
Sisterhood
2007-05-08 09:22:00 Manisha had started life as the quiet child in her family. While her older sister hogged all the glory Manisha was content to sit in the back and watch as people applauded Kamini after she sang a song at her own fourth birthday party, stood first in class in the third standard and won an ... More About: Sister
Spy Stuff
More articles from this author:2007-05-07 07:06:00 He was squinting. It wasn?t a flattering expression on him, ?It looks like her but I?m not sure.? Andrew squeezed his shoulder, ?Listen, I might not have done this a million times before but I?m telling you it was her.? ?And why were you following her?? ?I wasn?t! I live there remember? I was just watching ... More About: Stuff 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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