Category Archives: fiction
Is This Funny?
The ending is actually borrowed from this thread on reddit: I got stuck and took the easy way out. I’ll be submitting this along with this and that explanation, which I’m finding really painful to write. Not so much in … Continue reading
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Sleepy Writing
Findecano Coamenel was walking down the street when he looked down and realized that something just didn’t feel right. Why was he wearing green felt? Elves aren’t supposed to look like leprachauns! Stupid movies. When he saw Olo Bumbleroot approaching, … Continue reading
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Manhattan
…past midnight on the coldest night in November. This is the main component of my hostel’s entry to the inter-hostel (lit-soc) creative writing contest here in college, written by Slicer and me. For the full pdf with all the frills … Continue reading
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A Lonely Boy
Write a 200 word story as fast as you can- via Plinky Jebediah was a small boy with a large name. This did not help him make friends. He often took to playing by himself at the corner of the … Continue reading
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Ain’t so Easy to Write a Bad Romance
This is my contribution to my hostel’s entry for the inter hostel creative writing contest, uploaded mostly as a backup. We were supposed to hand in one broadsheet with certain required elements. The basic idea for our entry is that … Continue reading
Journalistic Integrity
This is the story that I wrote for the Shaastra Online Science Fiction Writing contest this year in the Short Sketch category. It got picked first by Cory Doctorow . It’s not very,er, scientific, as you might notice. But that’s … Continue reading
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Unicorn Waltz
Wrote a poem in about 20 minutes on, well, unicorns. I’m too scared to put it up here. It’s on my deviant art page. I’m not not putting it up here because people will think I’m a bad poet- I … Continue reading
Creative Writing
For those of you who didn’t know, I’m one of the coordinators for Creative Writing for Saarang, and this is the obligatory “online contest’s started, please send in your entries” post. Online Creative Writing There are three categories. Two are … Continue reading
Just had an Idea
Which I’m sure has been tried before. I want to write a fairly linearly played-out novel-or an outline, more likely- and then start rewriting it in reverse chronological order, trying to keep as many of the surprises or twists or … Continue reading
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Writing
I know I’m far too young for this part, but I want to write a story with a major character “who drifted through high school, went to community college, dropped out and had a kid, then years later matured enough … Continue reading
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