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Stories Varied: A Book Of Short Stories
This is a collection of the author’s short stories that deals with women's dilemmas in the Indian social milieu accompanied with unique denouements. While 'Ilaa's Ire' contrasts woman's lot of the day with her eminence in the Vedic Age, '201' Qualms" depicts her predicament, torn between personal loyalty and citizen's responsibility. As "?" addresses woman's marital stress in an alien land, 'Cupid's Clue' is about her acting on rebound in her native place. Even as 'Autumn Love' lets woman discover the marital void in her life, 'A Touchy Affair' makes her amenable to her man's other woman. Just as 'Love's How's That' inflames woman's old flame, 'A Hearty Turn' brings her innate lesbian leanings to the fore. If 'Love Jihad' bridges lovers' religious divide with a secular plank, 'Tenth Nook' creates her marital gulf on the materialistic ground. While 'Eleventh Hour' is about woman's lust for love, 'Twelfth Tale' underscores her zest for power.
Chapter One ：Chapter 1
BS Murthy
ISBN 9781310533877
Copyright © 2016 BS Murthy
Cover design of Gopi’s water color painting by Lattice Advertisers, Hyderabad.
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Hyderabad – 500 020
Foreword
With the addition of ‘Prey on the Prowl’ to my body of work, I thought the accretion was over without short story genre. Not that I didn’t try my hand at that, indeed I did, but finding the output wanting, I didn’t refill my pen again.
Maybe, literature was keen to have my contribution in this fictional sphere as well, so it seems, as beginning from July 2015, Vinita Dawra Nagia came up with “Write India Campaign of Times of India”. Her idea was to let the aspiring writers build their stories on the ‘prompts’ provided by eleven of India’s popular authors starting with Amish Tripathi.
When I penned Ilaa’s Ire on Amish’s prompt, it felt like I had crossed the unassailable frontier, and thereafter, for the next ten months, thanks to the prompts by Chetan Bhagat, Aswin Sanghi, Ravi Subramanian, Preeti Shenoy, Tuhin A. Sinha, Ravinder Singh, Durjoy Datta, Madhuri Banarjee, Jaisree Misra and Anita Nair, I had experienced the joy of short story writing.
That in the end, I could pen my Twelfth Tale, sans any prompting, perhaps, is a testimony to the success of Vinita’s Write India Campaign.
Dedicated to readers,
past, present ‘n future,
of my body of work,
in full or in part
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Story Titles
Story 1
Ilaa’s Ire
Story 2
‘201’ Qualms
Story 3
“?”
Story 4
Cupid’s Clue
Story 5
Autumn Love
Story 6
A Touch Affair
Story 7
Love’s How’s That?
Story 8
A Hearty Turn
Story 9
Love Jihad
Story 10
Tenth Nook
Story 11
Eleventh Hour
Story 12
Twelfth Tale
Other books by BS Murthy
Benign Flame – Saga of Love
Jewel-less Crown - Saga of Life
Crossing the Mirage – Passing through youth
Glaring Shadow – A stream of consciousness novel
Prey on the Prowl - A Crime Novel
Of No Avail: Web of Wedlock
A Novella
Onto the Stage – Slighted Souls and other stage and radio plays
Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife
Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of self – help
A translation in verse
Sundara Kãnda - Hanuman’s Odyssey
A translation in verse
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