The Caferati Contests just announced their results. I had participated in the Flash Fiction and SMS Poetry contests. The flash fiction entry made it only past the first round and the sms poetry entry made it to the finalists list, but eventually didn't win anything. Here are my entries:

FLASH FICTION (Topic: A Tall Story)

THE SCIENCE OF THINGS

“And how did this…I mean…is it from birth?”

“No, no. An accident.”

“Oh!”

“I was studying in Switzerland… hotel management. Always been fond of adventure…love the thrill. So, I had taken to mountain climbing and skiing. I was pretty good at it. One look at a mountain and I’d know the best way to climb it. There’s something so special about heights. Even speeds. All very scientific. It’s important to understand the science of things. It’s to do with the way the body and the mind are affected by potential and kinetic energy. When you travel very fast, your body starts storing kinetic energy which affects the mind and makes you believe anything is possible. You understand? As you take the body higher in altitude, it gathers potential energy which also affects your psyche. That’s why every city that has high-rises has a high sense of energy. People living on high floors are infected with this sense of possibilities. Anyway, so I was in Switzerland, preparing for this special event. One had to climb a mountain with a parachute strapped on the back. After getting to the top, one had to put on skis and jump off the mountain with the parachute, land on a ski slope and ski to the finish line. My parachute got entangled and one of the skis came off. Anyway, I managed to land and ski’ed to the finish line on one ski. As I crossed the line, the ski caught in a rope… I crashed and fractured my spine. Since then I’ve been on a wheelchair.”

“My God! Any cure?”

“That’s another story. You see, you have to understand the science of things…”


SMS POETRY (Topic: An Anti-valentine)

She loves me not, she loves me
She loves me not, she loves me
She loves me not, she loves me
Either way,
This flower will cease to be.


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