The Idea-smithy

This was fun. It is even more of a challenge to say something in a few words than to say it in many.
Sagnik tagged me so here goes…my 55-word stories.
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The Worker
The sun was shining, a blazing yellow-white. Heedlessly they trudged on.
“But do I have to?” he thought. “What if I break the pattern?”
He paused and [...]

It’s a good thing to be a morning person in Mumbai.
Contrary to popular perception, ‘morning people’ do not suddenly open their eyes, jump out of bed and bounce into the day. Take me, for example. I hate getting up in the morning. Especially in weather like the present, the urge to throw that damn alarm [...]

I’ve had a companion for three months now. It is a dragon…a real fire-breathing, flying, sharp-clawed Chinese dragon. And it is painted on me.
I think I first got fascinated with tattoos when I was in college. At that time I brushed it off as a teenage fancy (Ah..the trials of being a precocious teenager include [...]

Yesterday I went out for a drink with some colleagues. The talk turned to drinking games and we started on one called ‘Never ever, have I ever’. Here’s how it is played. One person raises his/her glass and proclaims “Never ever, have I ever….” and ends it with a statement. Everyone in the group who [...]