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Stories Varied: A Book Of Short Stories

Stories Varied: A Book Of Short Stories

Author:BS Murthy

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Introduction
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.
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  BS Murthy

  ISBN 9781310533877

  Copyright © 2016 BS Murthy

  Cover design of Gopi’s water color painting by Lattice Advertisers, Hyderabad.

  Self Imprint

  F-9, Nandini Mansion,

  1-10-234, Ashok Nagar,

  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