10wordstory Stories

Show: Jīva Zhālā Yeḍāpisā (जीव झाला येडापिसा). The first chapter celebrates the December 29, 2019 episode, when Shiva followed Siddhi to her parents' house and cooked dinner. The other seven chapters are about various phobias that the characters expressed. Some phobias are actual mental health issues like Shiva's fear of the dark and Siddhi's fear of cockroaches. Other phobias are unhealthy attitudes: homophobia and transphobia. Background: Siddhi helped a sexual assault victim and had Shiva arrested. Shiva punished Siddhi by kidnapping her, and a politician forced them to get married to hush up the scandal. Many months later, Siddhi drugged Shiva to make him lose the diving contest, remembering occasions when he intimidated her, but when he was being stabbed, she dived after him and saved him because she remembered occasions when he supported her in spite of hating her. While Shiva was in the hospital, the sexual assault victim revealed to Siddhi that Shiva had actually saved her. Both Shiva and Siddhi wanted to restart as friends. Episode: When Siddhi's mother invited her home for the night, Shiva followed her. Siddhi showed Shiva how to perform citrāvatī (चित्रावती) and prayer before dinner. Siddhi had cooked only āmaṭī (आमटी) and rice, forgetting the salt. Shiva cooked a dinner of zhuṇakā (झुणका), çapātī (चपाती), potato bhājī (भाजी), aḷūçe phataphate (अळूचे फतफते), kośimbīra (कोशिंबीर), and suraḷīcyā vaḍyā (सुरळीच्या वड्या), accompanied with slices of tomato and cucumber. Siddhi had been patching up books, and her hands were sticky, so Shiva fed her the first mouthful of zhuṇakā. The title झुणक्यातली मिरची लागली गोड is Marathi and means "The chili in the zhuṇakā tasted sweet." Cover Credit: @PriyaArshiSarun

Stories about Time in Mahābhārata and two different characters named Yaśodā. Chapter One: There are several versions of the myth that the cosmos is seen inside baby Kṛṣṇa's mouth. One version is that Mārkaṇḍeya, adrift in the deluge, was breathed into the baby's belly and saw the cosmos as if it hadn't been swept away. Another version is that when Kṛṣṇa yawned, Yaśodā saw the cosmos. A third version is that when Yaśodā heard that Kṛṣṇa had eaten dirt, she made him open his mouth, and saw the cosmos. This story is based on the fourth version, that Yaśodā suspected that Kṛṣṇa had eaten one of the modakas that was her naivedya for Gaṇapati, and she made him open his mouth. Yaśodā had made twenty-one modakas as an offering to Gaṇapati. Now she counted only twenty, and there was Kṛṣṇa, sitting in front of the mūrti with his mouth pressed firmly shut. Who else but this Dāmodara, who gets into trouble unless she ties him up, would have consumed the modaka before it could be offered as intended? Our efforts come to nothing if Time, the cosmic form in Kṛṣṇa's mouth, arrives early to consume them. Chapter Two: Mahābhārata states that Kapila Vāsudeva was born to Narācī in Kṛṣṇa's time, while Rāmāyaṇa narrates how Rāma's distant ancestor Sagara's sons discovered sanātana Kapila Vāsudeva underground. To resolve this plothole, I wrote a crossover story about time travel, including the characters of Dhundhumāra and Yaśodā, who is the daughter of Ancestors. The title is Saṃskṛta, adapted from Bhagavad-Gītā, and means "I am Time, who destroys efforts, at maturity." The image of Kṛṣṇa revealing the universe in his mouth is by metacrisis of India Forums, used with permission. Cover Credit: @PriyaArshiSarun

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Two stories about Thanksgiving, an American family holiday in November. First chapter: On land that traditionally belonged to native people of North America, foreigners were allowed to settle their homesteads. John Chapman, known as Johnny Appleseed, planted apple trees, an invasive species, to establish his claim to land, and sold his homesteads to settlers who arrived later. Apple trees in nature typically produce fruit that is not fit to eat by itself; it may be used to make cider, or rarely apple pies, which create a festive mood. People of the United States of America regard the land as their own, and the apple trees as part of it, duly acquired from its prior owner. Second chapter: Edward Carpenter, thinking about his estranged daughter Emily and his never-seen grandson Adam, flashes back to his own adolescence. The second chapter is an assignment that I wrote for high school in 1994: an intertextual chapter for Janette Turner Hospital's novel, The Tiger in the Tiger Pit, containing quotations from William Shakespeare's play, King Lear. Cover Credit: @PriyaArshiSarun

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10 words can go a long way ...

Ten words long All my own

Memories of the past can help us or haunt us. Some memories are better off forgotten. Told in a "10 word story" format.

A collection of 100 tiny stories, each exactly ten words long, and all written by me... I hope you find one or two that you like. Don't forget to vote! ;-)

Do you like reading poems about galaxies, stars and the moon? You have come to the right place!!!

Perfection isn't even a real word. He spends hours and hours in the pool, but what's outside of that? Pressure, nerves, and bolts. What's really within? He's suppose to not feel, compress what's inside so why is he feeling everything? Poetry/Short Story

10 word stories that make you think of everyone all at once.

The legend of Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār (the Lady Saint from the city of Kāraikkāl) is narrated in Periyapurāṇam by Cēkkiḻār. My story is an allegorical interpretation of the saint's husband's decision to abandon her. Paramadatta gave his wife Punītavatī two mangoes, and she served one mango to a Śaiva renunciate who came to her door. When Punītavatī gave Paramadatta his meal, he liked the remaining mango's taste and asked for the other one. Wanting to fulfil his desire, Punītavatī prayed to Śiva, and a divine mango appeared in her hand. As soon as Paramadatta tasted its impossibly sweet flavour, he knew that it was not an earthly mango, and he asked Punītavatī who had given it to her. When she told him how the miracle had happened, he thought it could not be true, and said, "Show me that you can pray to Śiva and obtain another fruit." Punītavatī prayed that her testimonial of the miracle would not be judged false, and again a divine mango appeared in her hand. Paramadatta was terrified to see his wife recreating the miracle, and imagining her to be a deity (aṇaṅku), he knew that he could no longer possess her sexually as her husband. He pretended to go away on business, settled in another city with a new wife, and named his daughter after Punītavatī to appease the deity. When Punītavatī was unable to convince Paramadatta that she was an ordinary human, she prayed to Śiva to transform her into a cadaverous spirit so that she could renounce her mortal identity and only serve God. My story imagines Paramadatta mentally addressing his decision to Punītavatī, imagining their continuing sexual relationship to be as unnatural as a mortal eating divine mangoes on demand. The title is Tamil and means "He saw another mango fruit entering her hand." Cover Credit: @PriyaArshiSarun

Mythology is the inspiration for these ten-word stories to question the relationship between humans and the world. Five of these stories are about five days of the Hindu festival of Dīpāvali: Dhana-Trayodaśī, Naraka-Caturdaśī, Lakṣmī-pūjana Amāvāsyā, Bali-Pratipadā, and Yama-Dvitīyā. The moral of the Islamic myth of Suleiman ibn Daúd trying to feed all the animals of the world for one day, and not even preparing enough food to satisfy one leviathan fish, is that a rich man should not imagine himself equal in ability to the providence of Allah. However, by our modern understanding of ecology, the story would have this sequel: the leftovers of Suleiman ibn Daúd's preparations washed into the ocean and provided food for cyanobacteria, microorganisms that are usually invisible to humans because they only reproduce as fast as they are eaten by other plankton. Cyanobacteria have to expend considerable energy fixing nitrogen gas into ammonia, which they assimilate into amino acids and other biomolecules required for growth. When Suleiman ibn Daúd provided nitrogen to cyanobacteria in the form of organic molecules, their reproduction was no longer limited and they bloomed, spreading thickly over the ocean surface. At night, the cyanobacteria could not get solar energy, so they began to perform aerobic respiration using the organic molecules, depleting the surface water of dissolved oxygen gas. Any fish passing under the bloom did not get enough oxygen to survive. Thus, Suleiman ibn Daúd's effort to provide food for animals backfired when fish asphyxiated and died. The moral of the sequel is that when when humans are indiscriminate with food, the result is cultural eutrophication: an excess of nutrients in the naturally competitive oligotrophic marine environment, which disrupts the balance of plankton and larger marine life in the food chain. Cover Credit: @PriyaArshiSarun

In Mahābhārata, Kṛṣṇā Draupadī receives Jayadratha hospitably, offering him and his entourage whatever she has on hand for breakfast. Vṛkodara Bhīma and her other husbands have gone hunting because fifty slaughtered animals are not enough to feed them, their brāhmaṇa dependents, and their servants for the day. Kṛṣṇā assures Jayadratha that Yudhiṣṭhira is on his way back with more food: various kinds of antelope and deer and elk (aiṇeya, pṛṣata, nyaṅku, hariṇa, śarabha, ṛśya, ruru, śambara), as well as hares, oxen, boars, buffalo, and other animals. However, Jayadratha is hungry for something other than breakfast, left behind by the Wolf-Belly and her other husbands ... Kṛṣṇā herself! The lifestyles and experiences of diverse characters from Mahābhārata are presented in the other chapters: (1) Satyabhāmā; (2) Śikhaṇḍin's wife Dāśārṇī; (3) Babhru Akrūra's wife Sauvīrī who was abducted by Śiśupāla; (4) Kṛpī; (5) Duḥśalā and Jayadratha; (6) Subhadrā and Uttarā with Parikṣit; (7) Kṛṣṇa's half-brother Jarā and his mother Turī; (8) Prātikāmin the chariot-driver of Duryodhana; (9) Sāmba who pretended to carry Babhru's child while married to Babhru's daughter Vasuṃdharā; (10) Kareṇuvatī the sister of Dhṛṣṭaketu; (11) Ekalavya the son of Śrutadevā; (12) Śakuni's nephews Vikarṇa and Citrasena. The title is Saṃskṛta and means "I'll give you fifty animals for breakfast." Cover Credit: @PriyaArshiSarun

On other social media I've seen this "10 word story" thing going on... I've read so many 10 word stories that I wanted to have them all down so this is basically what this book is for :) Keep in mind that this means that each story part will be very short... So read at your own boredom risk I guess haha Enjoy! (If I know who it's written by, I'll put the name. Submit one of your own in the comments and I'll put it in!)

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