The Imagined Universe

He watched the weekend sun rise lazily, its spherical shape filling the sky, and felt envious.� The sun can be round and orange, he thought, and everyone would admire it.
Why do they have different standards for people, he wondered. I cannot wear orange shirts, he thought, no one will like it, but can I not [...]

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Rads tagged me with a great tag that I just love. Not only do I get to do almost no work, but I am also doing good for the environment. How? I am recycling My old posts, that is.
The rules of the tag are : Post 5 links to 5 of your previously written [...]

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We all know the two rules to shopping. Life takes Visa. For everything else, there is Mastercard. Don�t ask me what �everything else� means � Entertaining expenses in Heaven? Ice packs in Hell? I don�t want to know.
But there is also a third rule � Stores take coupons.
In childhood, I collected stamps. For some [...]

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The spacecraft touched down slowly on Mars. A hatch opened, and an astronaut looked out. He then stepped down slowly onto the red Martian soil. The first man had landed on Mars.
The astronaut took his first step on Mars. Then he sneezed. He cursed silently. Neil Armstrong had said those unforgettable words when he landed [...]

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Sometimes, characters�are like earworms, or should I say, mindworms. They grow in your imagination, until you think of them�the whole day and�know every little detail�about them. That is exactly what happened to me when I read Shoefiend’s�story on Usha Aggarwal Miss.
So, Ladies and�Gentlemen, here is Usha’s story, or at least, my version of it:�
Usha Aggarwal [...]

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I lie awake in bed, desperately seeking sleep. What was that sound from the basement? Was it the furnace starting up, or was it just the wind? There it is again. Or is it something more sinister? I suddenly panic - are there�burglars in the basement?
I look at the burglar alarm indicator. It blinks back [...]

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