Microstories

The last of my archival posts. 140 character stories posted on twitter years back with character names from A to Z.

Angie joined two Hindi sentences with a shrill ‘becuzzz’. Bob’s brain leaked out of his skull and made a mess. Angie sipped her tea.

Carl was eating noodles. He called Diana nuts. “Soo meaannn,” she shrieked. He punched holes in his neck in a swift swing of his fork.Blood.

Ellen called Fred’s Philips mp3-player an iPod for the 159th time. He dropped his head into the sauce. Plop! Ellen hummed Las Ketchup.

Gollum roamed around naked in his room. He sang ‘The lion sleeps tonight’ and danced like Stan. Ah, the pleasures of having no roomies!

Houdini kept sawing despite her cries. The magic box was defective. The blade sliced her colon: All that remains now, is a sad semi colon;(

“This is not dandruff. They are shreds of my muffler,” Ivan consoled himself. He became a religious zealot later – ‘Ivan the irrational’

Joe sat in the theatre hoping the girl beside wouldn’t misunderstand his bunched up pants. They are married now. Their son counts till 10.

‘Stories arise from reality,’ the writer pleaded. Yet, Joe’s pants strangled him. He never wrote abt Joe’s pants again. Nor did he breathe.

Kim grew her nails long and named them ‘na’,‘ni’,‘no’,‘nou’,‘num’. She loved ‘no’ the best. She snorted cocaine from no’s underside.

Lira looked at Max and smiled. Max lived a sad life thence. Nothing could move him anymore – mere shadows of the smile that they all were.

Nick worked for a Well-known Tech Firm – WTF. He lost his ID Card. And spent the rest of his days making temp ID cards everyday.

“Gimme a break,” said Olya to Pete. He picked her up gently, rested her back on his right knee and gave a violent jerk upwards.

“Gimme a break,” said Qadira to Ron. He got off his cycle, yanked out a little black pad from it and gave it to her. Yes, he loved her.

“unh,” said Sarah. “UNH!,” Tom retorted. She held her head down and walked away, gracefully accepting her defeat.

Unwaba sang songs loudly and made a nuisance of himself. His embarassed friends beat him up. He had loud earphones.

Vin woke up puzzled from a dream and went to the loo. Then he came back and fell right back into the dream.

Wayne was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. The doctors laboured for two nights to get it out. Wayne could not speak his whole life.

Xena, the black hole looked at her comb. But, “black holes have no hair." She broke it and flung it into a nearby galaxy.

It was a rainy night. Yglesias renamed his shell script from ‘hashi.sh’ to ‘hime.sh’ in silent tribute to the great man.

“Are toilets the last bastion of sanity, or is it just me?” wondered Zack. The nurse led him to the ECT room for his next session.