10wordstory Stories

10 words can go a long way ...

Food with family and friends - this desirable combination can get complicated when loved ones speak their minds. In the first story, a grandmother tries puttanesca sauce (which translates into English as "hoochie sauce") in a public place. In the second story, one friend wants to try tiramisù for dessert while observing his religious prohibition of alcohol, and while he is being facetiously difficult with the server, the other friend reminds him of his distaste for the very mention of cheese. In the third story, someone who is baking with the recipe that Mother shared remembers Mother's rule for any recipe that she receives ... but Mother is a micromanager! The title is Italian and means "Puttanesca sauce and tiramisù? Mother of mine! Let's eat!" Cover Credit: Sevenstreaks of India Forums

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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

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

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

In the Saṃskṛta play Nāgānanda, attributed to Harṣa, the hero Jīmūtavāhana sacrifices himself to save a cobra who is the designated meal of the great eagle, Garuḍa, for that day. Overwhelmed by Jīmūtavāhana's sublime magnanimity, Garuḍa grants his plea to give up eating cobras, which are part of his natural staple diet. My story relates Jīmūtavāhana's misguided interference in the food chain to his earlier thoughtless use of his magical wishing-tree (kalpa-vṛkṣa) to rain gold all over the world for the benefit of poor people. Just as the sudden devaluation of gold currency would be disastrous for poor people in the real world, adding economic inflation to their existing deprivations, convincing Garuḍa to stop eating cobras would shift the burden of his hunger and their expansion onto other species. Proverbially, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Cover Credit: @PriyaArshiSarun

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Ten words long All my own

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! ;-)

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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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