Short Story
The Man of the Forest
A mystical, partly metaphorical coming of age story about a boy tasked to enter the vast and unknown forest near his village to find the mysterious entity known as the “Man of the Forest” who can save his village.
The Work of Kunal Lobo
Coming of age, falling in love, football essays, and other things.
No man ever steps into the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
Heraclitus, 544 BC
Selected work
Stories and essays, free to read.
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Short Story
Tell Me a Story
A theoretical physicist and single father must now raise his artistic and creative daughter alone. While she adores him and looks up to him, he lacks the creativity and free spirit that his late wife possessed to inspire his daughter to take on the world.
Short Story
Ergoregion
An aging therapist and his dying wife discuss what it means to them to help the world, and why they chose to keep working even at an old age.
Essay
Challenging NFL Overtime Orthodoxy
In 2022, the NFL changed its playoff overtime format to allow each team at least one guaranteed possession in overtime. Since then, it has become orthodoxy for those who win the toss to kick the ball first. This essay shows the flaw in that orthodoxy, and shows that teams should continue to take the ball first in overtime.
About the author
We all write stories. In most cases, we keep these stories within ourselves and never write them on paper. We hide them from the world and many times we forget them. When I leave this world, I don’t want to leave any of these stories behind.
Kunal Lobo is a physics PhD from the University of Arizona who enjoys fictional writing as a hobby: contemporary fiction, fantasy and dystopia in the short form; coming of age and falling in love at full length.
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