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Contributors Vipin Alex Jacob works as a Visual development artist at Mark Animation in Toronto, Canada. Most of his work experience comprises of doing ‘character and look development’ and the creation of 3D Models and Environments. He started his career in India working with studios like Maya Entertainment Ltd, Prana Studios and Krayon Pictures, thereafter moving to Canada and working with Intelligent Creatures, Optix Digital and Mark Animation. Some of the more exciting projects that he has been a part of, was working on Disney's TinkerBell, Weinstein's Unstable Fables and BBC Documentary- "The Hidden Life of the Cell", among many others. LINKS: http://www.storyweaverz.blogspot.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/VipinAlexJacob Swati Singh Sambyal is an environmental researcher, poet, blogger and a freelance writer. She is a published author of "Painted", a book of 43 contemporary poems. She is passionate about life, people, music, words and places and is trying hard to bridge the gap between the life’s chores and the unusuality that resides in her. In her own words, this is a journey Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, effortless dénouements (outcomes). Many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870's, describing the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught up in events beyond their control, are permanently changed by their experiences. He wrote some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. His first published story, "Boule de Suif" ("Ball of Fat", 1880), is often considered his masterpiece. 4