In Brief

 Etc.
Aug 312005
 

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…

Gay­athri

Here are the peo­ple I’d like to tag:

Navin

Vidya

DoZ. Link to story.

Gay­athri. Link to story.

Tilo. Link to out­sourced sto­ries ;)

Sybil. Link to story.

Swami. Link to story.

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.

 Posted by Karthik at 11:15 am

  15 Responses to “In Brief”

  1. Bala (Karthik) says:
    Sep, 1 2005 at 9:09 am

    Karthik,
    Have you read Robert M Pirsig’s “Lila”?
    Just curious.….

  2. Karthik says:
    Sep, 1 2005 at 9:50 am

    No… why do you ask?

  3. prash says:
    Sep, 1 2005 at 2:16 pm

    ok that’s it!
    no more 55s on things we thought were some­thing else but ended up actu­ally being animals/convertibles!
    :-)

  4. tilo says:
    Sep, 1 2005 at 5:31 pm

    No way!

    I am out­sourc­ing this to the inim­itable Ammani - the Queen of short shorts.

  5. tilo says:
    Sep, 1 2005 at 5:33 pm

    THat should be Ammani

  6. DoZ says:
    Sep, 1 2005 at 9:12 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…

  7. Karthik says:
    Sep, 1 2005 at 9:44 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.

  8. Bala (Karthik) says:
    Sep, 2 2005 at 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…

  9. Bala (Karthik) says:
    Sep, 2 2005 at 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.…

  10. Karthik says:
    Sep, 2 2005 at 4:29 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.

  11. Gp says:
    Sep, 2 2005 at 5:12 am

    hey, good job. very cre­ative work. fun to read.

  12. Karthik says:
    Sep, 2 2005 at 5:59 am

    Thanks Gp.

  13. Sibyl says:
    Sep, 3 2005 at 9:28 pm

    That was nice, espe­cially the first story. And thanks for shak­ing me out of my slumber–my story is up here.

  14. +: etcetera :+ » Conversations With God says:
    Dec, 23 2005 at 10:36 am

    […] Pre­vi­ous efforts: 1 2 Pub­lished in: […]

  15. Dreaming of Zihuatanejo » 55 or less says:
    Jul, 23 2006 at 3:42 am

    […] Sorry Karthik. If I can think of any­thing bet­ter, I’ll let you know. […]

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