Tag: Science Fiction
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The Fire That Burns Some
– The mother of my great grandfather had come riding on the arrow of fire that cleared the wilderness. She was spotted by the son of a local tribal king and they both got married and together sowed the first seeds of this village. – Is this true? – Yes, it’s true. The local PWD…
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Frame – Press Release
Disorderliness, no more the default normal Raivata, Inc. launches Frame, a device to reduce net local Entropy MUMBAI. Sep 13, 2035. Raivata, Inc., the pioneer in metaphysical industrial solutions has launched Frame, a consumer device that allows reduction of Entropy, the degree of disorder, in a local system. It allows its users to reduce the…
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I Will Take You There – Part 1
I have been driving on a road that is bordered by nothing. The sun is shining at its best and the dust is everywhere. At times like these, you realise everything being at its best is not always desired. My view is so monotonous, it seems I am going deep into a painting for which…
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Original Copy
– Is it wrong to love a married woman? – There is a term for it – Extra-marital Affair. – I didn’t say ‘for a married woman to love’ but ‘to love a married woman’. Do people have to earn a right to love someone, one right for each? Even if that is the case,…
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Sunset – Part 1
“Father, is there actually a God?” “Everything’s there until its absence is proven.” My father never liked to be called Dad, Daddy, Papa, or any thing of that sort. He insisted that I call him Father because he liked the sound of it – Faa-dar. “There are even aliens flying between the two of us,…
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Chingo
I always thought Biren looked like his father. Since time immemorial, I have maintained the custom of identifying resemblance of the current generation with the previous one and have never found such stark congruity of facial features that existed between him and Amitav, his father. I remember telling this to Amitav, – Biren looks just…
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Traveler
– I have a question. (She said) – What? – Why can’t we love more than one person? (I gave a puzzled look, because I was.) – When one can love her mother and father and sisters and brothers equally, why can’t she get involved romantically with more than one person? Why can’t she care…
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A Strand of Hair
“Humans are incapable of accepting the reality even if they know it.” It was another hot November night and we were having a conversation about things which frankly were of no interest to me. It had been one hour since we had been talking and I had almost given up on deciphering her cryptic intellectual…
Shishir Chaudhary 