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It is finally here! My very own short stories collection: The Forest Bed and other short stories. After long delays for ‘technical’ reasons, my book is finally available worldwide as an ebook. What’s even better?
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Short Stories | Fish-eye Perspective 
I got the book at Amazon. I will do a bit of reading later and post a review.
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Thank you, Judith! Looking forward to it…
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Shared again on Twitter, Shaily. Great review from Don! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thank you, Pete. Don is very kind and generous in his comments. 😁
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Just finished it and what a fine book. Both you and Manprett take a bow. A five star work.
Wrote this review in Amazon:
What a delightful collaboration of prose/poetry and art/poetry in such a small volume. You can enjoy it on the surface and enjoy it in it’s depths. Snap shots that make you smile, gasp, and think.
I have followed Shaily Agrawal’s blog posting and always marveled at how she could write interesting fact post concerning being a wife and a mother of a little daughter; and in the next post write fiction that causes you to ask, ‘did I just read what I thought I did? ’and then you go back and read it again. It is this skewed fiction that is the prose in this book. The best way to describe it is in the title of her blog, Fish In The Trees.
I was not familiar with the art of Manprett Kaur and like the originality of Shaily’s stories, Manprett’s artwork, which introduces each story, is unique in that it tells of the upcoming story in a complex and beautiful painting. Not the illustrations of a Nathaniel Wyeth or Dr. Suess, but a full canvas of realist impressionism, often with the humor of Dali. I just signed up to follow her blog.
I know the title states it is a work of short stories. That is stretching the point. Each story is a vignette, a complex tale told in the least amount of words possible, most with a twist at the end. The stories run a gamut of emotions, some comic, some bittersweet, joyous, dark, some very dark. Most are told in the first person with the narrator a person, either alive or dead, or maybe a rodent or a fish, or even an object.
Look at the artwork. Read the story. Bet you go back and study the artwork and reread the story. While the underlying foundation is the culture of India, the art and the prose are universal.
The tales/paintings in the book are like potato chips, you can’t get by with just one.
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Wow! Thank you so much, Don! Once I tell Manpreet, she’ll be over the moon! 😁
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Thank you, Anvi! 😁
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Thank you very much and congratulations on publishing!
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Thank you, Darnell! How have you been?
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Thank you, Darnell! Looking forward to your feedback.
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