DATING and MATING

I go home early, shower, deodorize, groom, titivate, put on my best shirt and wait in eager anticipation for this mysterious woman…

ROMANCE – A Love Story

ROMANCE
By
VIKRAM KARVE

  
[Dear Reader, here is one of my earliest mushy love stories for you to read this festive season when romance is in the air. Do tell me if you liked it]

 
 
            HIS STORY
 
Sanjay stared blankly at the TV set, never so frightened, never so alone.  He couldn’t believe the [...]

The Day After I Quit Smoking

THE DAY AFTER I QUIT SMOKING 
 By
 VIKRAM KARVE
One of the things that deters smokers from quitting decisively in one go is the fear of withdrawal symptoms. This results in smokers resorting to half-baked remedies like gradual reduction, nicotine patches, low tar cigarettes and various other futile therapies. In my opinion this exaggerated importance given to withdrawal [...]

A Short Story – A Dog’s Life

Please click on the link below and read the short story
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/01/a-dog-s-life.htm
Vikram Karve
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com

THE AFFAIR by VIKRAM KARVE

Click the link below and read a fiction short story THE AFFAIR by Vikram Karve
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/the-affair.htm
If you like it do read my fiction on my creative writing blog
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com
Regards
Vikram Karve

Life Process Outsourcing – LPO

Just click on the link below and read my story on LPO – Life Process Outsourcing:
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/life-process-outsourcing-pure-fiction.htm
Do read all my creative writing on my sulekha creative writing blog:
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com
Regards
Vikram Karve

The Visitor – Fiction Short Story

Click the link below and read my short story – The Visitor
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/the-visitor-fiction-short-story.htm
VIKRAM KARVE

QUALITY TIME

QUALITY TIME

(A fictional short “love” story)
 
by
 
VIKRAM KARVE
 
 
 
 
At exactly 8 PM her cell-phone rings in her hand. She’s expecting the call – that’s why she’s holding the cell-phone in her hand. She looks at the caller-id, accepts the call, moves the mobile phone near her ear and [...]

Freedom

FREEDOM
 
By
 
VIKRAM KARVE
       
                Anonymity. That’s what I like about Mumbai. As I lose myself in the sea of humanity leaving Churchgate station in the morning rush hour, I experience a refreshing sense of solitude. I notice that I am walking fast, in step with the crowd, as if [...]

Lovedale to Coonoor – Don’t Delve Too Much

DON’T DELVE TOO MUCH
(a fiction short story)
By
VIKRAM KARVE

            The moment I see Muthu, the office-boy, standing at the door of the class room I feel a familiar fear. I close my eyes and try to concentrate on Ms Bhalla who is reading aloud with dramatic effect Ruskin Bond’s story ‘The Woman on Platform [...]