Salmon and Mackerel E-Book

Anand Bose

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

These are an assorted collection of Drabble. Effort is made to flower the language. It is a bouquet of poetic prose. Many of the characters are life people. Culture is released as a bliss of catharsis.

Leseprobe

Anand Bose

Salmon and Mackerel

BookRix GmbH & Co. KG80331 Munich

Photographs

I look at the photos placed in frame with wonder. I ponder on what could be going on in their mind. People often smile in photos. I travel down in the memory land. I think there’s soul in each photo. Photos captivate the essence of life. They make us feel so human.

The Witch

She always has a broomstick of emotion. Small mistakes upset her mind. When I spill water and food on the table, she frowns at me with wrath. It is her that gives me a meager allowance of two hundred rupees a day. It is very difficult to please her. She grumbles a lot. Yes, she is my own mother.

Borges the Writer

Borges the Writer is a sweet monster of the language known for circumlocution….I am his alter ego and he keeps communicating me from the grave. For the moon his favorite verb is: moonizes. She moonized her buttocks. He cunnilingulalized her. He naturalizes art. Poetize the world to live in an extreme state of passion. James Joyce epicualized one day of a man’s life. She labialized her and made her ecstasy. Mumbojumbolize the word. Literature ornamentalizes the world. Poeticize the world as art.

M Krishnan Nair

M Krishnan Nair was a college professor and a notable literary critic. He is known for introducing World Literature to Kerala People. It is said that while taking classes, outsiders used to flock to  his classroom out of interest. He was a dedicated teacher. Once asked the difference between Dostoevsky and Rushdie: he said that Dostoevsky is a giant of literature where as Rushdie is an ant. 

The Poet

Long before the days of the internet, there was an area in college which was called sugar corner. It was where the love birds of the college flocked and engaged in intimate conversions. Along with them was a man who called himself as poet. He made a living by writing poems in calligraphy for the lovers. There, lovers bestowed their poems to their loved ones as a token of love. I too was a recipient of those poems written by him. Gone are those days of love. Love is all social media and selfies without any passion.

Rachael

She is a favorite grandmother of the tiny hamlet. The youth of the village are especially fond of her. She is liberal, permissive and celebrates a free spirit and heart. Youth flock to her pastures to learn the first games of sex. She has serviced both fathers and sons.  She is a nymphomaniac never getting tired, always wanting more.  She is doing great service to the nation as a skillful instructor.

Nobodynothing and Somebodysomething

Nobodynothing and somebodysomething are twin selves of a struggling writer. Nobodynothing is an earth of reality, doing a menial job of teaching English to high school students. Somebodysomething aspires to be an established author who longs to travel to places, to smoke clove cigarettes, attend literary symposiums, visit art galleries to make love to the women in his life and many more. The self is an illusion stuck between nobodynothing and somebodysomething. 

Rainbow

Once upon a time there were fairies who lived inside the rainbow. They were a happy go lucky lot and lacked nothing. The prince Mosque descended on to the rainbow and did dastardly things. He shut out the colors and light of the rainbow and waged a war with them. Then came the prince of Good Time, the Sun. He felt pity for the fairies and besieged Prince Mosque. He dethroned Prince Mosque and gave back the rainbow to the fairies.

Jolly

Jolly is woman an ordinary housewife who attained fame and notoriety as a serial killer. She is a black widow who came to the limelight as a serial killer. It was when her children died and were taken to hospital, doctors felt something fishy and did an autopsy.  The results showed poisoning by cyanide. Then the earlier graves of her husband, in-laws were dug and the results showed symptoms of cyanide. The motive for murder is lust, adultery and desire to appropriate wealth. Strange are the ways of the human mind.

The King of the Paper Castle

He was eccentric. He builds a wall around his house and proclaimed it as a nation. He started printing currency. When he told the concerned government they put him under lock. He was thoroughly beaten but nothing would change his absurd view