Really Short Stories

The sound of music

saganbyte — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:40:48 +0000

Once a pig and a donkey set out to form a rock band. The donkey would bray and the pig would grunt. They went around performing and people really loved them and even followed them on Twitter and liked them on Facebook. Basically nothing went wrong.

Moral of the story: The social networks are braying and grunting!

Die by the dish

saganbyte — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:58:36 +0000

Many years ago, a lot of poor men and women left their houses and went to other houses. By poor I mean married… The word ‘poor’ is used sympathetically. So these poor men and women changed a lot of houses. Most women went and lived with their new husbands, some men and women bought new houses and some men went and directly lived in the women’s existing houses. This story is about the third kind, where the men went and lived in the women’s houses. The men woke up early and started the day by washing the dishes and cleaning the women’s under garments. Then they would serve their in laws till they forgave them for something they had never done. One fine day, everyone died and all the problems were over.

Moral of the story: Don’t bother doing the dishes, you will die anyways.

Whats in a name? – Part III

saganbyte — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:36:21 +0000

Many years ago there were three men:

Ram Murti
Sham Murti
Daam Murti

They all died in a plane crash.

Moral of the story: There can be many things in common in people apart from their surname.

A momentary lapse of reason

saganbyte — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:51:50 +0000

Once there was a man by the name of Tom Oroville. He went to work one day and never came back.

Moral of the story: Tomorrow will never come.

Food for thought

saganbyte — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:15:54 +0000

Tony was born in a prolific family with 2 brothers and 7 sisters. The disadvantage for his parents was that there were too many mouths to feed but the advantage was, there were no leftovers either.

Moral of the story: Dont worry, be happy.

Uncooked Sausage

saganbyte — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:31:28 +0000

Many, many days and as many nights ago, there lived a man who went around taking more work than he could handle. He made ridiculous commitments and accepted unreasonable deadlines. Eventually he couldn’t finish any of the work and he ended up disappointing himself.

Moral of the story: Too many soups spoil the cook.

Karma

saganbyte — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:54:11 +0000

Many years ago, there was a young, handsome, fun-loving farmer who lived on top of a hill. He had to come down everyday to work on his farm.

Moral of the story: What goes up, must come down.

Manopause

saganbyte — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:20:49 +0000

Many many years ago, there lived a professor of literature and he taught Shakespeare to college students. While lecturing, he was in the habit of taking long dramatic pauses in between sentences. One day while lecturing on Romeo and Juliet, he took such a long pause that the students thought the lecture was over and they left the classroom.

Moral of the story: If you love someone, then go and tell that person before the person leaves.

Master of Puppets

saganbyte — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:08:50 +0000

Once upon a time there lived a mediocre ventriloquist. Instead of using a puppet he used a living human being to bring realism in his performances. After a short lived amused response his popularity died and then some years later he died.

Moral of the story: The most successful people are those who were good at Plan B.

Mona Lisa

saganbyte — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:47:34 +0000

Many many years ago in a nice quiet village there lived a painter who loved to paint sunsets. Every evening he made it a point to paint the sunset as it happened. After doing this meticulously for over 25 years he had so many paintings of the sunset that there was no space for him in his own house and one evening he had to reluctantly vacate it.

Moral of the story: Don’t let the sun go down on you.