Devil's Breath: Curse in Disguise

I recently went through something that got me thinking about power and how having it bestowed on us may influence our actions. Upon research, I found the ultimate power tool, Devil’s breath, a drug that rids the taker of free will, the real life equivalent of Harry Potter’s Imperius Curse. This short story explores how a person would react to owning this drug. P.S. Before you jump to the conclusion that the main character is the 'villain', stop and consider what would you have done had you been given the same opportunity.... Continue Reading on HASH

My Bucket List

1.      Move to New York City

2.      Go to NYU

3.      Have a relationship with a certain Gossip Girl star I wouldn’t like to mention here.

4.      Try a Vodka Marini and a Cosmopolitan

5.      Write and direct Moulin Rouge on Broadway

6.      Meet Eva Longoria

7.      Have first line tickets to New York Fashion Week

8.      Spend my honeymoon in The Maldives

9.      Write a New York Times bestseller

10. Eat Breakfast at Tiffany’s

11. Visit Marilyn Monroe’s grave

12. Share a kiss with a hottie in the middle of Times Square

13. Win a Pulitzer

14. Own a Chelsea art gallery

15. Ace my SATs

16. Get a paid job

17. Have a baby girl and call her Sarah

18. Legally change my name to Adam

19. Get a job at Vanity Fair

20. Cover the Oscars or Tonys

21. Acquire the linguistic abilities to read the original Shakespeare works

22. Visit Studio 54

23. Spend my 5^th Anniversary in Paris

24. Intern at a successful magazine

25. Have a closet full of nothing but designer labels

26. Go out on a night around the town with Chris Colfer

27. Invite all my bullies to a school reunion where I flaunt my success and make them green with envy. (Don’t kid yourself, you want it too)

28. Move to the Upper West Side

29. Have one of my books made into a movie

30. Write a TV show’s screenplay

31. Get over my animal phobia

32. Be part of a campaign that ACTUALLY does something to save the environment

33. Write a Glee movie that all the actors reunite to film

34. Dine at Sardi’s

35. Go to Vegas and get a hangover so bad that I end up in a place I don’t know

36. Perfect my British accent

37. Know how to cook anything other than scrambled eggs

38. Fire someone (haha, vicious me)

39. Understand why some people called the movie Amour ‘brilliant’

40. Meet Anne Hathaway

41. Watch the Broadway revival of Les Miserables

42. Create a time machine to go meet Audrey Hepburn at her youth

43. Ride a train going to a random place

44. Make out with a hot model

45. Revisit my high school in Dubai

46. Throw a drink in someone’s face

47. Dedicate a book to the world’s most amazing woman, my mom

48. Buy my engagement ring from Tiffany’s

49. Visit Radio City music hall and watch The Rockettes

50. Find out I have magical powers and get into Hogwarts (or just go to the Harry Potter theme park)