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A 3-minute story of mixed emoticons

Ted Stories: Rives — star of the Bravo special “Ironic Iconic America” — tells a typographical fairy tale that’s short and bittersweet.  

February 12 2013 | Posted in Videos | Read More »

Tabled Memoirs

Tabled Memoirs

  TABLED MEMOIRS She yet reminisced over those glorious years. Times in the past, times yet unseen, when the sun would scatter the colours of the rainbow in glee before her exuberant eyes. They had been a shroud that had hovered over her, protecting her instincts from the vast unknown outside world. Purple was the [...]

November 5 2012 | Posted in Fictional Stories, Woman Stories | Read More »

Why I write…

Why I write…

  The story of my life can be told as simple. There’s no much crossroads or milestones or anything spectacular. Maybe, because I tend to live my life as it is offered to me in every way and every day, that is. But, I do have a nutty as a fruit cake imagination for thinking [...]

November 1 2012 | Posted in Articled & Opinionated Stories, Inspirational Stories | Read More »

“A woman named Bibing”

“A woman named Bibing”

  At thirteen, Bibing looked every inch a young lady but was pretty much a child in many ways. She wanted to play but could not as she had to help augment the family’s meager income by selling merchandise around the town. She was the third of the 4 daughters one of which was a [...]

October 10 2012 | Posted in Headlines, Philippines Stories | Read More »

Power to Push On

Power to Push On

Mom was in head-on collision. After 5 operations in 4 months she was confined to a wheelchair. My father was determined she would walk.  Bundling her up, they drove 3 days to Florida. Mom would slip in and out the car using the board the hospital gave her. They went on boat rides on the [...]

August 28 2012 | Posted in General, Inspirational Stories | Read More »

A Mistake !!!

A Mistake !!!

Nidhi lived in her own world, a silent and serene world. She had no one to share her feelings; still she was contented and enjoyed being alone. Sometimes she met people but somehow find herself disconnected from them. She had constructed strong walls around her with door, always closed. No one was allowed to enter [...]

August 28 2012 | Posted in Fictional Stories | Read More »

EMOTIONAL ACTIVISM

EMOTIONAL ACTIVISM

I spotted her from the end I sat, eyes glued to this unprecedented beauty of youthful grooming, with eyes that radiates sunshine, lips dishing out Oxonian elocution and a possession of humane disposition, I have taken a pause to duff my heart at this unparalleled respledency of folksy culture. Heartbeats at her approach with strides [...]

August 24 2012 | Posted in Poetry & Spoken Words | Read More »

My First Day with the Yankees

[A Yankee fan's way to a job as a batboy. Matthew McGough is the author of "Batboy: Coming of Age with the New York Yankees." He was writer for NBC's "Law and Order" and his most recent writings appear in "The Atlantic."] Moth Stories

July 11 2012 | Posted in Videos | Read More »

New Born Baby!

New Born Baby!

“Can I see my baby?” the happy new mother asked. When the bundle was nestled in her arms and she moved the fold of cloth to look upon his tiny face, she gasped. The doctor turned quickly and looked out the tall hospital window. The baby had been born without ears. Time proved that the [...]

May 17 2012 | Posted in Friend-Family-Parent-Child Stories | Read More »

THE MAGIC KETTLE

THE MAGIC KETTLE

Right in the middle of Japan, high up among the mountains, an old man lived in his little house. He was very proud of it, and never tired of admiring the whiteness of his straw mats, and the pretty papered walls, which in warm weather always slid back, so that the smell of the trees [...]

April 26 2012 | Posted in Folktales, Headlines, Japanese Stories | Read More »