Ice Cream [Short Fiction]

A short piece I wrote for fun a while back originally titled 'A Breakdown in Economic Theory' and based on a true story. Nothing serious in here, at the time I was just toying with the economic notion that more information and more choices = better decision making. But as we know from studies (and going out into the real world) by Dan Ariely (one of my favourite authors) and Daniel Kahneman (have one of his books, reading soon), this isn't always the case. If you've ever walked into a food court and didn't know what you should order, you know what I'm talking about.
-Imran

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Common Criminals [Short Fiction]

This is a piece I wrote centred around some thoughts and feelings on crime. One of my long-term projects is a book about an ex-cop waging a one-man war against crime. With this piece, I tried to condense the one of the key ideas of that book into a short narrative. That being said, this piece has nothing to do with the book. Just something I tried out. Hope you enjoy, comments and feedback (both positive and negative) will be appreciated.

-Imran

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Welcome to One Thousand Words!

Hello everybody

And welcome to my blog. A little bit about me: I'm a student at the University of Cape Town in South Africa with the ambition of becoming an author. This blog is a bit of an experiment by me. I plan to post some of my writings here, preferably weekly, and am hoping to get some feedback. I'd love for the writing to speak for itself so, with that, I'll end this post.

Thanks in advance
-Imran