In Brief
For a change, a fun tag. The goal, inspired by this is to write a short story in 55 words or less. My definition of a short story is wider than yours, so here’s my, um… , effort.
A blogger dies and goes to heaven. A few weeks into his stay, he runs into Darwin. Talk tended to evolution, naturally.
He asks Darwin about the only evolution bloggers care about – how people evolve from Insignificant Microbes to Mortal Humans and beyond.
“Good content,” he replied.
“Is that all?”
“And Intelligent Design.”
Thanks Prash for the tag (and a neat story!) – I had so much fun doing this. Maybe I’ll do more…
Here are the people I’d like to tag:
Tilo. Link to outsourced stories 
Update: Here’s another one.
It was love at first sight – vulnerable me and the irresistible sonofabitch. We went home together that night, getting along fabulously till my sister moved in. She started to like him.
This morning I wake up, and they’re both gone.
I’m calling the cops: no one takes my Labrador away from me.
Comments (15 comments)
Karthik,
Have you read Robert M Pirsig’s “Lila”?
Just curious…..
Bala (Karthik) / September 1st, 2005, 9:09 am / #
No… why do you ask?
Karthik / September 1st, 2005, 9:50 am / #
ok that’s it!
no more 55s on things we thought were something else but ended up actually being animals/convertibles!
prash / September 1st, 2005, 2:16 pm / #
No way!
I am outsourcing this to the inimitable Ammani - the Queen of short shorts.
tilo / September 1st, 2005, 5:31 pm / #
THat should be Ammani
tilo / September 1st, 2005, 5:33 pm / #
Love your “short story” abt evolution. I promise to respond – have a curious medical problem to investigate first – a swollen head, combined with performance anxiety…
DoZ / September 1st, 2005, 9:12 pm / #
Ammani is the queen alright, only when you do one do you realize how hard it is. She seems to do it so effortlessly day after day after day.
Karthik / September 1st, 2005, 9:44 pm / #
“how people evolve from Insignificant Microbes to Mortal Humans and beyond”
“Lila” has got interesting things to say on this and much more……I think you might like that book…
Bala (Karthik) / September 2nd, 2005, 4:09 am / #
“how people evolve from Insignificant Microbes to Mortal Humans and beyond”
“Lila” has got interesting things to say on this and much more……I think you might like that book….
Bala (Karthik) / September 2nd, 2005, 4:09 am / #
Oh ok. I’ll check it out sometime.
If you click the links I had for Insignificant Microbes and Mortal Humans, they lead to the TTLB ecosystem – a way to track the “importance” of blogs.
Karthik / September 2nd, 2005, 4:29 am / #
hey, good job. very creative work. fun to read.
Gp / September 2nd, 2005, 5:12 am / #
Thanks Gp.
Karthik / September 2nd, 2005, 5:59 am / #
That was nice, especially the first story. And thanks for shaking me out of my slumber–my story is up here.
Sibyl / September 3rd, 2005, 9:28 pm / #
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