Category: Witty

• The Grey Irony — Featuring Dr James Watson

  Background problem: Racism in the use of genomics Case in Point: Dr James Watson of Watson and Crick Model fame, a Nobel laureate if you please. Also, the founding director of the ever-famous public Human Genome Project What Happened: Talking about the “prospects of Africa,” he made the following remarks to the interviewers in 2007: “All…

  Iqra Aslam

  January 19, 2023

  Biological determinism, Funny, Genetics, Genome, irony, racism, Science, The Grey Irony, Witty

  determinism, Funny, Genetics, Genome, humor, irony, racism, Science, science gone wrong

• In Context

  

  “A woman of exceptional beauty in a room full of prospective grooms, interested not in even one of them only falls short in terms of suspicion to a handsome bachelor, with a large income and handsome disposition yet who was not pursued by a string of women”

  Iqra Aslam

  January 6, 2019

  Books and Authors, Creative writing, Deja vu, Desire, Drama, Feelings, Heart breaking, Lost love, Love, Oscar Wilde, Passions, People, Romance, Short story, Stories, Story, Story tellers, story telling, Tragedy, Wit, Witty, WRINGO, Wringo Ink., Writing, Writing Fiction

  Books, BooksandAuthors, Creative writing, Fiction Writing, Historical Fiction, Regency, Short stories, Short story, Stories, Story, Storytellers, Storytelling, Victorian, WringoInk, Writer’s life, Writing

• Fiction and other Realities

  ‘Fiction is inspired by reality’ That is what they say. Yet, I have observed that a few events happen a lot more in fiction than they do in real life or vice versa. Take sweating for example. Imaginary characters sweat way more than you or I ever would. I understand being in a story is…

  Iqra Aslam

  May 31, 2018

  Books, Comedy, Comical, Crazy, Drama, fiction, Funny, Funny Icky, Humour, Laugh, Reality, Sarcasm, Stories, Stranger than Fiction, Wit, Witty, Writing, Writing Fiction

  Comedy, Comical, Creative writing, fiction, Fiction Writing, Funny, Funny Icky, Humour, random thought, Sarcasm, Stranger than Fiction, Writing

• The Vegetable

  “Hahahahahhahahhahahhahahhaahhaha” His laughter echoed as the sharp ends of his wits ricocheted back from the hollow walls of the building. Wits were all he had at that moment for his form was reduced to an awkwardly arranged construction of weak bones, confined by means of ropes. However, he didn’t know that, for he couldn’t feel…

  Iqra Aslam

  March 30, 2018

  anxiety, Craziness, Crazy, Creative writing, dark, dark humor, darkness depression, depressing, Drama, Emptiness, fiction, Humour, Insanity, Insomnia, Lost, Madness, moods, Plants, Psycho, psychology, Psychotic, Psycosis, Sad, Sadness, Short story, The struggles of life, Vegetable, Weird, Wit, Witty, Wringo Ink.

  anxiety, Creative writing, dark, dark humor, Darkness, depressing, Depression, fiction, Humour, Life, Short stories, Short story, Storytelling

• Toothaches > Heartaches

    Tobacco, tomato, timber, and toothache. Smoke it, hot, don’t burn, in pain. Please don’t bother for my sake Because I am pretty insane.   Human, you humane. Heartache! Didn’t I tell you to refrain?   Nothing to offer, I have, I’m afraid, Yet my blood, you continue to drain. When the last few drops…

  Iqra Aslam

  January 29, 2018

  Comedy, Craziness, Crazy, dark humor, Humour, Insanity, Pain of existence, Poem, poetry, Psycho, random thought, The struggles of life, Tragedy, Weird, Wisdom, Wit, Witty

  Comedy, Creative writing, dark humor, Humour, Life, personal experience, Poem, poetry, poetry writing

• The Shark’s Den  

  

  Once upon a time, sharks flew across the sky and what a sight it was! Hue — the painter produced the finest painting of his life while Click — the photographer captured an inspiring shot. Bard — the poet crafted the most memorable couplet of his life. Finally, Cloe decided that something must be written on the beauty of this view…

  Iqra Aslam

  August 2, 2017

  Anti-consumerism, Children’s Literature, consumerism, Creative writing, Drama, Environment, fiction, Go Green, Humour, Insanity, Nature, Past, People, Plants, Short story, Vegetarian, Weird, Wit, Witty, WRINGO

  Anti-consumerism, Children’s Fiction, Creative writing, Environment, fiction, Humour, Nature, Short stories, Short story