Terribly Tiny Tales
Hey guys! I am uploading these terribly tiny tales on popular demand. I wrote these
for an online competition hosted by IIITD in the month of March 2016.
I won the competition for writing the maximum number of these tiny tales. The challenge was to make the story the length of a tweet, that is 140 characters.Nothing more than that.These hashtags are basically the topics and the number of character count.
11. He looked at her like Snape looked at Lily. But alas! he was trapped in a framed picture covered in garlands. #picture #harry_potter #count109
1.
They both cried when they saw each other for the
first time. The mother was born again as she held her child in her arms for the
first time. #mother #count140
2.
The artist loved to paint with his favorite
color - red. That day there wasn't enough blood to finish his landscape. #red #count116
3.
He was an alcoholic, drunk in her love not
knowing she was an alcoholic too, though she got drunk every night on whiskey
and rum. #whiskey #count129
4.
Every city she traveled to, she took birth
again. And with every birth she discovered herself bit by bit. #travel #count105
'Always.'
'Just one word?'
'Quotes don't need to be long. They just need to be meaningful.' #always #count119
6. His shayari created the magic that his gifts worth thousands failed to do so. #shayari #count77 7. For him everything was as barren as the desert until she came along with the rain. Somewhere in that drab desert a rainbow could be seen. #rainbow #count139
6. His shayari created the magic that his gifts worth thousands failed to do so. #shayari #count77 7. For him everything was as barren as the desert until she came along with the rain. Somewhere in that drab desert a rainbow could be seen. #rainbow #count139
8.
She was her mother's favorite star. As a
wonderful poet then. As a diamond in the sky now. #mother #star #count90
9.
The exam cost him more than just his fathers
monthly wages. It cost him his life. #exam #count81
10.
The rising sun in morning. The soft splatter of
1st rain. The swaying of trees. The raging storm. This was music to the deaf
girl's ears. #music #count137
11. He looked at her like Snape looked at Lily. But alas! he was trapped in a framed picture covered in garlands. #picture #harry_potter #count109
12.
She was the adventurous kind. She defied death
eight times. But on her 9th lesson death taught her a lesson. #lesson #cats #count109
13.
After his mother passed away he lost all hope in
his life. Until one day he saw a shining star and saw his mother giving him
faith. #mother #star #hope #count131
15.
Born and brought up as a harlot in a brothel.
Saw her destiny from the eyes of mother who gave birth to her and the father
who sold her.#harlot #mother #count136
16. They
stored all their memories in pictures. Only when he died did she realise that
indeed pictures speak a thousand words. #picture #count122
17. 'Happiness
can be found even in the darkest of times if one remembers to turn on the
light'
But what if you have Alzheimer's ? #harry_potter #count125
18. The
sky rained as if its mourning. The sun shone in pure melancholy. Their
despondency brought them together and created a rainbow. #rainbow #count131
19. As
they clinked their glasses, they heard the sound of music. As they drank the
champagne they felt they had tasted stars. #stars #music #count122 (Augustus and Hazel)
20. If
I'm star shinning at night and you are the sun If I'm the music and you are the
eerie silence tell me how our paths can ever cross? #star #music #count135
21. You
gave me hope while all i gave you was doubt. You taught me my first lesson
which i tried to evade. Tell me mother how do you handle me? #hope #lesson #mother #count139
22. Crushed
under the weight of his parents hopes and expectations, no one understood why
he was found covered in red the next morning.
#hope #red #count131
23. Will
you marry me? He asked.
Yes HE said while blushing.
On their wedding day they were draped in beautiful rainbows. #rainbow #count115
24. He
was a complete mamma's boy. He always wanted to live with her even when the
ghost of his mother haunted everyone else. #always #mother #count122
25. They
say your loved ones become stars when they die. Instead when she looked from
afar they all looked the same - humans. #stars #count121
26. on
16 December the students of Army Public School learned a lesson and the message
was imbibed by the whole world. Life is indeed too short. #lesson #Peshawar #count140
Finally science and Sachi broke up.
Aah! no need to give any more science exams. #exams #count135
28. She
was a harlot. But a lover inside her died a little every time she saw a new
face to spend the night with. #harlot #count109
29. They
had hope that one day their child would grow up to be something. But the little
chicken could neither keep them nor their hopes alive. #hope #count139
30. Everyone
called her Hermione as she was always immersed in books. She felt lonely till
she found her Ron who was happy to just be with her. #harrypotter #always #count139
31. The
mother woke up to the cries of her only daughter. But wait... all she had was
her picture. The daughter was no more. #mother #picture #count120
A rejection repaid in terms of acid burns and bloody reds. #lesson #red #count99
33.
He would see stars in the morning, wear jeans to
sleep, drink whiskey early morning and was everything the society did not want
him to be. #star #whiskey #count138
34. Love.
Synonym : Excruciating pain
Another lesson learned that day. Another piece of hope turned to ashes. #lesson #hope #count103 35. Light travels faster than sound. Maybe that's why she saw the light at the end of the tunnel before she heard the Yamraj's sound. #travel #count129
Synonym : Excruciating pain
Another lesson learned that day. Another piece of hope turned to ashes. #lesson #hope #count103 35. Light travels faster than sound. Maybe that's why she saw the light at the end of the tunnel before she heard the Yamraj's sound. #travel #count129
36. Writing
is one thing that keeps me sane yet high enough to see the stars. It is the
best remedy to a broken heart. Same is with whiskey. #whiskey #star
#count136
37. Sometimes
t'was a library. Sometimes a bedroom. Sometimes a study room. Sometimes a messy
cafe. For the muggle it was a room of requirement. #harrypotter #count140
38. Bones
broken. Heart broken. Brain not responding. Music acted as the ultimate healer.
#music #count85
39. She
sat for her IAS exam and got through. Domestic violence, marriage, rape could
break her bones not her spirit and determination. #exam #count131
40. For
him orange yellow and red always symbolized bravery and green and silver,
slyness and well pink meant hatred because of Umbridge. #always #harrypotter #red #count133
Years later the same people go and buy tickets especially to see her play. #cricket #count131
42. The
rain washed away the pain and the sun brought with it a new day. But just like
the rainbow it was temporary. #rainbow #count112
43. She never spoke all her life. Society had silenced her. But Tedx gave her a platform where her words silenced everyone else. #tedx #count124
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