For humans, the risk of being curious has profound value. Even for the self-satisfied and the incurious, curiosity can make the mundane seem magical. Quriously contains ten short stories.Lia is bewitched and delighted by a stylish, gender-neutral ...

For humans, the risk of being curious has profound value. Even for the self-satisfied and the incurious, curiosity can make the mundane seem magical. Quriously contains ten short stories.Lia is bewitched and delighted by a stylish, gender-neutral pop-over shirt in (“Liv”orno). A chance encounter in an unlikely place with a handsome Italian youth fills her with an incomprehensible longing more for the shirt he is wearing than him, and a longing to return to Italy.Rekha misjudges a young girl’s behavior and falls prey to her fantastic delusional tales in the (@Cafe).An Uncle trapped in a car, on an irksome six-hour-long road trip with his Nephew finds new ways to connect across generations in the (Ne Phew!).SaiKetan experiences uncontrollable erotic sensations sitting next to a strapping handsome man in a theater in the (Touch…).Kabir on an airplane guiltlessly imagines an intimacy prompted more by proximity and less by reality in the (Hoodie$).Louis, a writer coming to terms with the use of social media to promote his book, cannot take the right selfie for his Vanity wall to save his career in the (Vanity^). At times, to be sent to the school of hard knocks is what is required,Rene establishes his men’s clothing brand, out of the starkness of the white desert in the (__Trail).Mubarak is disheartened by the anxiety his name invokes when he arrives face-to-face with Israeli security forces in Tel Aviv in (%Mubarak%).Alex wonders if a simple human gesture could be indicative of a hidden romantic interest in the ((Hugs)).Yuki’s Zazen cafe is based on a novel principle he discovers on a trip to Southern India in the (?Answer…). Very often, unabashedly experimenting with new methods can be simple fun.A range of emotions and experiences - to try anything and risk everything surface in various disguises in the ten candid short stories contained in ‘Quriously’.