Category: Stories
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OFF THE RECORD — EPISODE 2
KAIA It is the worst feeling when you don’t want your thoughts to be bothered by someone—but somehow, they are. When the artist called both of us in for a meeting, I assumed he was going to choose between us. I looked over my pitch again, feeling controlled but unsettled. Neil Voss. CEO of Voss…
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OFF THE RECORD — EPISODE 1
KAIA New day. New leaf. Traffic was slower than usual. Not unexpected—just inconvenient. I was almost late. Not enough to matter. Just enough to feel it. I preferred it that way. Being early meant waiting.Being on time meant blending in. Being slightly late—meant walking into a room that had already started without you and still…
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TERMS UNDER REVISION EP-10 (FINALE)
ARIS It was the next morning and I was lying on my bed staring at the ceiling. Yesterday’s conversation was still playing in my mind and it was going to be tough. Given the last few days my gut had some uneasiness but it wasn’t a bad one. I knew that maybe my project wouldn’t…
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TERMS UNDER REVISION ep-09
ARIS Okay, this was a lot to take in. But you know what? I’m Aris Laurent. I will power through this. It may be a success, or my system may go in another direction, but I need to finish this for my own peace. The inner me was freaking out. What if it deviates?What if…
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TERMS UNDER REVISION – EP 08
KABIR After a quiet weekend, classes reopened. I hadn’t seen Aris for two days, hoping the distance would settle things between us. The class was full of enthusiasm and innovation, but I felt unusually quiet because those deep brown eyes weren’t speaking up. The classroom emptied slower than usual. There were still echoes of arguments…
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TERMS UNDER REVISION – EPISODE 7
ARIS Okay, Aris. Yesterday’s conversation was merely professional, related to the model, I said, looking at my reflection in the mirror. But inside my mind, one sentence kept replaying: “Or it could mean us.” Us is out of the question. How can “us” happen if “we” are so different from each other? “Ugh!! It is…
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TERMS UNDER REVISION ep-06
ARIS “Michela, what a pleasant surprise. What are you doing here?” “Woman, you are the talk of the town. Someone saw you and Mr. Mehta working in the lab yesterday.” “Working? He was just looking over my model, just like the other students.” “Oh sweetie, when the students left and it was just you two,…
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TERMS UNDER REVISION ep-05
KABIR Usually, I don’t replay lectures in my head. I don’t replay arguments either, but something felt annoying about the fact that Aris deserved space in my mind. Maybe she was the only one who ever disagreed with me, and maybe I felt this way because I needed to win. I thought about it, and…
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TERMS UNDER REVISION ep-04
ARIS For the first time, I was irritated by the notion — not because my opinion wasn’t accepted, but because my core was challenged. And that agitation took a different shape inside me. Not loud.Not emotional.Precise. “Control slipping.” That sentence triggered something in me. Not fear. Correction. If control is slipping, that means there was…
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TERMS UNDER REVISION ep-3
KABIR“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke.I smirked at that quote, knowing that what happens around me is the future of the world. I shut the book and soaked in the view outside the hotel window. No thoughts. No worries. Just quiet and calm.That calm lasted exactly one minute.My assistant…