Playing Games at the Coffee Shop

The Devil loves a wicked love story and this one by LivingHigh at Caferati is so wicked that it's sweet -

The key to good flirting is confidence. If you have that, even the corniest of pick up lines will not let you down. And of course, he knew it. He'd been doing this forever. He was a player. Keen and sharp, with a seductive smile on his lips that all the candidates who met him here for coffee would ache to reach over and kiss, but would hold themselves just back. He knew how he did it, even though they didn't.

Clothes are terribly over-rated in the sense that she never bothered to dress up too much for her tricks. She was meeting them evening after evening, coffee after coffee, because she wanted to, and a girl can't get dressed up all the time, she reasoned. So she would walk over from her office which was a short walk away from the coffee shop, play with her hair, undo the jacket, apply some brief gloss, and she would be perfect. It was the way she handled herself. The confidence, the poise, the combination of good girl and bad girl that made men turn their heads when she walked by.

There are those who hunt and there are those who are hunted. The fun begins when two hunters meet.

Wicked Meter Rating: 8/10.

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Romance at Suicide Point

Picture this: a man and a woman, alone on a mountain ridge, both of them about to commit suicide. Phatichar writes a story with a wicked twist -

They say nature looks its best from suicide points. And that's because it wants us to have a second thought about jumping and losing it all.

About the ending - plot spoiler follows - sometimes, all it takes is a push, doesn't it?

Wicked Meter Rating: 7/10.

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He Met Her in Istanbul

Is it possible to fall in love with a stranger? Two restless travelers find out; or do they? Scout writes a wicked story about love and wanderlust -

It was her. There was no mistaking it. She didn’t wear her hippy clothes, but a chic, understated dress and ballerina shoes. But still, she laughed the same way she’d laughed that evening in Istanbul (when all I had said to her "I envy you" was "Why?"). Her eyes sparkled and danced as she spoke to her friends.

Before I knew it, I had walked up to her and said, "Well, you can’t envy me, I don’t give you the permission."

She looked up at me, slightly puzzled but still smiling. The kind of look you give to random strangers who start spouting utter nonsense. Her frown deepened as she took me in, her smile faded before becoming broader as she recognized me. My stomach did a little jig inside me, she remembers, I thought.

"You took so long to think up a come-back eh?" she said.

And I was stumped again.

"Buy me coffee, while I wait for your dazzling wit to show up," she steered me into the cafe.

Listen to The Devil. If you haven't fallen in love at first sight, it isn't love, it's children playing house. Sigh.

Wicked Meter Rating: 8/10.

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The Devil in the Living Room

The Devil manifests itself in many forms, sometimes as Liz Hurley, sometimes as Al Pacino and sometimes as a camel. Mukta meets The Devil in her living room (via DesiPundit)-

Since the last two weeks, I’ve been seeing a camel in the living room at night. I get up for a drink of water or to scrounge for something in the kitchen, and when I step into the living room, I see a camel.

It sits between the divan and the T.V., facing me. It’s not chewing cud, like how I would imagine it to, but it just sits there peacefully… staring ahead like a sphinx.

Who you would want The Devil to be?

Wicked Meter Rating: 6/10.

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The Devil Picks His Toenails

The Devil is bored. The Devil stretches out his long legs on his exquisite velvet couch, then looks at his toenails and has a sudden urge to pick them. So, The Devil picks his toenails and wonders when he will be summoned to the mortal world by a wicked post.

Neha writes a wicked little story that reads like a page out of The Devil Diaries (via DesiPundit)-

It took him a few surprised minutes to recognise the rumbling all around. His room was shaking violently now, its contents flung all over the place. As he struggled to stay put, he smiled. Finally, he thought, a summon! And as a lime green vase smashed into his face, he wondered, in child-like anticipation, what three wishes he would be granting this time.

And, Neha, what about your three wishes?

Wicked Meter Rating: 7/10.

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After Months of Abstinence

The night belongs to The Devil and The Devil thrives on temptations. After months of abstinence, Twilight Thoughts is tempted into first licking it and then finishing it off -

Then temptation swallowed me whole. I wet my dry lips and almost tasted the salt. My stomach did the weirdest flip flops. Cursed. Swore. Stared longingly. Should I? No! I would feel miserable in the morning. Curb your desire woman!

The Devil also does things to the imagination. What were you thinking, wicked people?

Wicked Meter Rating: 6/10.

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Spam Newsletters & Haunted Houses

Inspired by a spam newsletter from a legal site - "as a home seller, are you obligated to disclose paranormal activity?" - GreatBong tells a story about a haunted house in Kolkata -

Sellers should disclose grisly facts about the house, so they will not be 'haunted' later. Even if not required by state law, in order to soothe the spirits of prospective buyers and avoid lawsuits, the seller should be upfront about their home’s paranormal guests or ghoulish histories.

Unlike in US, in India it is the neighbours who inform prospective buyers and renters: so no need for litigation.

Wicked Meter Rating: 5/10.

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The Bombshell at the Bus Stop

Falstaff chats up a bombshell of a woman at a bus stop -

She's beautiful. Short hair, coal black eyes and a face straight out of Modigliani. Loose gray sweater, dark blue tights. The kind of legs that have spent long hours at the gym. Dancer's legs. The light from the street lamp outlining her in gold. A downtown Danae. A bus stop Venus.

He reminds himself he mustn't stare. Pretends to go back to his magazine, holding it up high in the air, hoping she'll notice it's the New Yorker and be impressed. Thinking to himself, yes, I really am that shallow. Feeling strangely elated that it's been fifteen minutes since she got here and the bus still hasn't come.

In the end, however, it's his mobile phone that does the trick and not his copy of the New Yorker. And, watch out for the explosive twist ending.

Wicked Meter Rating: 7/10

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Will You Take a Shower With Me?

Sunshine takes a shower with her neighbour:

You know what? I would be taking the shower. So you could take it with me.

Holy shit!!!! I just dropped my jaws and stopped dead in my tracks. He did too. How did this guy make such lewd remarks and still manage to look so cool and unperturbed? In fact, he was smiling a faint smile. He didn’t look drunk. He didn’t look like a rapist either. But wait, the fact that he is a rapist isn’t ever written on a man’s face, is it?

What did you just say? I was trying hard not to lose my calm. Carefully, I squinted in the sun to look at his face as he repeated his offer again.

Before you get all hot and bothered and head for the shower, let me tell you that she's being a bit of a tease here. But being a tease is wicked too, no?

Wicked Meter Rating: 5/10.

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