My story Come Tomorrow may be read at Anna Tambour's site.
That's all my finished stories out, now. Maybe it is time to write new ones.
This work by Jayaprakash Satyamurthy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
I loved 'speed of ignorance'! Also the Chandamama-y quality to the interlude, which signifies for us an escape better than anything else, no?
ReplyDeleteI didn't realise it, but another friend also pointed out that Chandamama-like quality, and I thought that was a fortuitous resonance. All the ghost stories in the story are actual Bangalore ghost stories, told to me by friends and acquaintances. One, however, may also be found in a collection of Oriental ghost stories by Lafcadio Hearn.
ReplyDeleteI quite liked it, but didn't find it as good as the other three.
ReplyDeleteI didn't think of it that way, but Chandamama-y is a great characterisation of the whole meeting with the come tomorrow ghost.
Maybe that's why I didn't like it so much, because I felt that the Chandamama-iness didn't transmit well to the rest of it. Not that I think it was intended to, but more like it sort of did even though it wasn't intended. Or something similar.
Oh, and I really cringed at 'speed of ignorance.'