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My Favourite American Writers

 O Henry   Harriet Beecher Stowe  Mark Twain   Louisa May Alcott  Margaret Mitchell   Harper Lee

The Winsome Child( A Short Story with no dialogues)

 The Winsome Child   In a city, which roars with activity, day in and day out, one can hardly expect the citizens to remain in close touch with each other. This assumption is a bygone conclusion for apartment dwellers. Urban layouts are cluttered and over-crowded to the extreme and the minds of the inhabitants are often filled with conflicting thoughts, feelings and maladies that make conversations of a personal nature, quite non-existent. Maybe, urban dwellers don’t trust each other as much as their rural counterparts. Of course, it has never been human nature to realise that one must be a good neighbour to deserve a good one.   In a few clustered apartments that we are discussing about – all kinds of people lived: the lecherous and the dignified, the young and the old, the rich, the middle class and even the poor, who had once upon been rich enough to buy an apartment but now not rich enough to maintain one, the tall and the short, the active, the passive, heroes and villains, blesse

List of some wonderful short stories, which I like to read over and over again!

 1. Oscar Wilde's 'The Selfish Giant'  2. Rabindranath Tagore's 'The Postmaster'  3. F.Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Diamond as big as the Ritz'  4. R.K.Narayan's 'Sweets for Angels'  5.Jim Corbett's 'Lalajee'  6. Short stories by Anton Chekhov  7. Short stories by O Henry  8. Stephen Butler Leacock's 'My Lost Dollar'    and many many more!🙂

Poem:Succeed

  First you bleed      Then you           Succeed  S.Padmapriya