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Rajiv Iyer

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Dec, 2021

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Schrodinger’s Serendipity of Cause (Intention) & Effect (Action)

Rajiv Iyer

Submitted to Contest #193

[Themes: Dark Humor/Comedy, Satire] [Disclaimer-1: mild profanity (one or two occurrences of a-word and f-word)] [Disclaimer-2: The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed here are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.] [Disclaimer-3: Fair use (Parody) might apply in some situations.] It was just after Midnight. 2 am to be precise: what would be called “the coffin corner” in aviation parlance could equivalently trans...

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DDoIS: Parallel Geodesic Lines intersecting at Curved Space-Time Infinity

Rajiv Iyer

Submitted to Contest #156

“Hey there boy. Sky's the limit. Aim for the stars. You’re a blank slate. There’s infinite possibilities ahead. You can be anything you want to be. You’re not constrained by anything or anyone. You just have to put your mind to it & it will happen. I’m right there with you.” - were the exact words my father swore he said to me when I was first born & brought into this big bad world.As the years went by, he would stick with lesser versions of this message (updated on the passage of time, the law of diminishing returns, and the inevita...

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Losing my Grip for Good

Rajiv Iyer

Submitted to Contest #127

[Note: MINUS/PLUS is from the perspective of “PRESENT DAY”]~~~~ ~~~~MINUS 6 MONTHS | London, UK:Harry wakes up one morning, with a throbbing headache (which he’s been having on and off for around 4 years), with a gut feeling that he’s not really himself. It’s almost as if his entire personality has changed; some totally different character that he doesn’t recognize that was now in-control of him, becoming his de-facto dominant persona.He simply couldn’t explain this feeling. It wasn’t anything logical. It wasn’t as if his Life was in a dark ...

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Unnatural Selection

Rajiv Iyer

Submitted to Contest #127

[DISCLAIMER: SciFi, Sensitive/Polarizing topics, Dark Dystopia, Social Problems, Govt Tyranny, Violence. Heavy, dark stuff. Please DO NOT READ if you are sensitive, or Survivor of War/Genocide/Atrocities, or predisposed to Depression.][Note: It was difficult to somehow incorporate “intuition” with the idea I had in mind for “a problem with no good solutions”. I hope that my story is still given due consideration.]YEAR 2050: Gibson was the Chief of the top-secret facility, in-charge of the entire operation. He was heading back to his office a...

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Exceptionalism through a Kinetic Game of Russian Roulette

Rajiv Iyer

Submitted to Contest #127

[Note: this is about the Rise and Fall of a Legendary figure, kind of like a biography of sorts, adapted in the context of the topic of “intuition”. It’s meant as a homage. Parts of it, especially the bits about where “intuition” fits into the scheme of things, are fictionalized and speculative, and since that person cannot speak for themselves on this forum, I certainly cannot say to what degree “intuition” actually played a role in their Rise or Fall. No malice or disrespect is intended.]~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~~Approaching his mid-30s, he was a...

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Dr. PsychicLove: I didn't sign-up for this shit when I faked it till I made it, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the clueless ticking time-bomb

Rajiv Iyer

Submitted to Contest #127

[Note: sharp satire or dark humor; some references to COVID pandemic]As with anything in Life, it all comes down to “great expectations” (not the novel). As Gautama Buddha identified some 2500 years ago, the root-cause of all human problems arises from “expectations”, and its ever-present accoutrement “attachment”. Thus it was with Claire Buoyant, better known through her alter-ego: Dr. PsychicLove. Like the enlightened founder of Buddhism, she too had accounted for the role “expectations” played in her accidentally chosen profession to opti...

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Bohemian Jackson Seinfeld Salad Rhapsody

Rajiv Iyer

[Note/Disclaimer: Some sensitive content, including sharp social/religious satire; complete stream-of-consciousness improvisation with some self-censorship/self-moderation; Intention is not to offend, but to poke fun of absurdities all around. Apologies in advance if offense is taken.] CMHBJM AFO was an aspiring writer who thought he had solved all his non-writing problems by adopting “CMHBJM AFO'' as a pen-name. Of course, he was yet to solve the core problems associated with his chosen profession (at which he was sucking): that of the (i...

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Viral Love across Lockdowns

Rajiv Iyer

Submitted to Contest #126

[Note: references to pandemic and mental-health]It was New Year’s Eve 2019, a little over a month when the COVID-19 pandemic was born, but a good 3 months before it spread its tentacles and became global-news and a household name. People were blissful in their ignorance, oblivious to the creeping threat on the horizon. It was a festive time with a carefree style of celebration, with no concerns for veiling faces, baptizing hands, sanitizing surfaces, or three-dimensional cartesian spatial distancing of people like molecules in a crystal latt...

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Tweaking the Recipe for a Fresh Start

Rajiv Iyer

Submitted to Contest #126

[Note: mild profanity (one or two occurrences of a-word and f-word);sharp satire or dark humor at times][Disclaimer-1: The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed here are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.][Disclaimer-2: Fair use (Parody) might apply in some situations.] As the clock struck midnight, and the entire world heralded the arrival of 2022 with great pomp, Alan and his new friend turned soul-mate held each oth...

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CEO makes a binding New Year Resolution for Corporate Underlings

Rajiv Iyer

Submitted to Contest #126

[Note: Some profanity (mainly the a-word and f-word), sharp satire]On New Year’s Eve 2021, Grimraj reflected upon the year that went by, and the grim tally of everything he had achieved with grim satisfaction, while he was en-route to a watering hole to ring in the New Year with his co-workers, and celebrate their achievements in grand style. For you see, 2021 had been a stellar year for him; he had clocked-in only God knows how many hours , achieved all his targets and then some. 2021 was the year when the CEO finally noticed him as a stand...

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Author bio

Voracious Reader, Film Connoisseur, Music Sampler, Discussion Seeker, Tech Enthusiast, Programmer, Existential Philosopher, Another Human.

[I write on & off based on how busy/stressful my Life/Job is.]

Most of my writing is at the intersection of existentialism, dark humor, farcical comedy-of-errors, social/political/religious satire, some element of the macabre or grotesque existential horror. That's my "natural default setting" as David Foster Wallace would say. I am attempting to extricate myself out of this self-imposed pigeon-hole, broaden my horizons, and write on positive happy stuff, like Romance, and feel-good stories. But I also think Sharp Satire is what I do best.

Most of my writing is also quite verbose, heavy on description, weak on dialogues. This is another area I need to improve on, especially if its to be appreciated by a wider audience.

You will also find my writing is maybe not "structured" as per conventional literature standards, and also densely peppered with pop-culture references, computer science or basic science references, political/religious/social references, recursive layers of jokes: almost like a typed equivalent of "Arrested Development" (pretty much one of my favorite shows of all time).

WordPress: https://arbitraryimpermanence.wordpress.com/

Medium: https://medium.com/@42istheAns

First short-story I wrote in Dec-2013 as part of an Anthology of stories, as part of a book-club in Mumbai, India: https://bookhadwrites.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/the-unforgiven-a-discordant-symphony-in-seven-movements/

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