Copyright
Stories Varied
A book of short stories
BS Murthy
ISBN 81-901911-9-5
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
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
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)
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, future,
of my body of work,
in full or in part(s)
Story Titles
1) Ilaa’s Ire
2) ‘201’ Qualms
3) “?”
4) Cupid’s Clue
5) Autumn Love
6) A Touch Affair
7) Love’s How’s That?
8) A Hearty Turn
9) Love Jihad
10) Tenth Nook
11) Eleventh Hour
12) Twelfth Tale
