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		<title>The dancing eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was all sunshine and smiles at the party. The storm that had wreaked havoc just a few hours back was well hidden beneath the cheerful facade. My friends urged me on and I obliged, downing one drink after another. No one had any idea about the volcano that raged beneath the surface. I fiercely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was something about the way she looked at him. Her kohled eyes seemed to see through him and decipher his thoughts. He felt parched and longed for a drink. “Can you give me some water??” he asked her. “Did you walk all the way to my house to ask for water??” she asked a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>The losing battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lay awake in the darkness, unable to get back to sleep. The sudden cramp in my leg was what had awakened me. The pain had been excruciating. Rubbing my calf vigorously I sat up for some time till the pain had abated. But getting back to sleep was a different story. It was pre-dawn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The willing victim</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- a small tale I put the cap back on the pen and laid it on the table slowly. Her eyes moved from me to the pen and then back to me. Hope flickered in them. The tear drops on her long lashes shone like dew drops on the morning grass. Her eyes never ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In different ways</title>
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		<comments>http://shailsnest.com/wp/challenge/in-different-ways/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overt feelings in my eyes grow naked tendrils that you dread they stretch and touch the chill making you gasp inviting you deep into dingy darkness a world so different from your own you squirm, look away something gnaws your insides like it does mine yet… in different ways… a covert hand finds a coin [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Friday Fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now who would have thought being late and last would win me a trophy?? That’s just what happened. I won the  Super Fun Scrambler Golden Trophy that you see above, for being the second last person to come up with the answer to the jumbled word/sentence that Pal had posted here.  Winning the trophy comes [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>47</slash:comments>
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		<title>The U-turn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- a short story “Vulgar!” she screeched in distaste looking at the frock I had taken out for her. That was the latest word in her vocabulary, vulgar. Anything and everything she didn’t like was vulgar. The milk was no longer yuck, it was vulgar. The vegetable she did not want to eat was vulgar. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>The little scientist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The little boy screwed his face in distaste as the acrid smell of the smoke entered his nostrils. He was glad his parents were out visiting. They were a bane when around, always interrupting him. Their words of caution were an impediment to his quest for knowledge. He despaired at their tepid reaction to his [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>A virtuous sinner</title>
		<link>http://shailsnest.com/wp/challenge/a-virtuous-sinner/</link>
		<comments>http://shailsnest.com/wp/challenge/a-virtuous-sinner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new tag is doing the rounds in blog-town kick-started by none other than The Indian Homemaker.  Pal has also tagged me on the same one. The tag requirement: List at least ten things you have ever wanted to do or have done which your gender is not supposed to. Hmm… On reading it, a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>What women want</title>
		<link>http://shailsnest.com/wp/challenge/what-women-want/</link>
		<comments>http://shailsnest.com/wp/challenge/what-women-want/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogadda has started it all by asking a simple and seemingly innocent question of the blogosphere. What do women want?? With blogs mushrooming overnight and by the day too for that matter churning out answers, adding to the already humongous pile of information one would think, this tricky question has now been taken care of. [...]]]></description>
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