Abhik Dasgupta

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“The Sign” by Abhik Dasgupta

Submitted to Contest #16

He had got up early at dawn..could hardly bat his eyelids the other night, such excited he was. He had silently tiptoed into the freezing cold outside, holding the easel to his chest and tucking the sketch pencils carefully inside his jacket. His mother did not have the slightest clue about his son's intentions otherwise she'd have never allowed him to brave outside in the cold, without making sure that he wrapped himself from head to toes in warm clothes.When he came and sat at the spot he had chosen the other day they arrived at ...

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Abhik Dasgupta is a Civil Engineer, Author, literary, blogger, proof-reader and book- reviewer. His other interests are software learning and website development. Having started his career in 1997 he worked for several Construction companies and Engineering firms of international repute until at the age of 38, he founded his own infrastructure consulting company. He had an appetite for English and Bengali literary fiction since his school days and found time in between studies for devouring works of Tagore, Dickens, Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Satyajit Ray and Sunil Ganguli to name a few. Abhik has written several micro-fiction, short stories and poems on various social media websites and has two novelettes on Amazon in Crime, Horror, Thrillers genres now. He is currently working on his first novel in Drama/ Romance genre expected to hit the stands in 2020. He also blogs in 'Times of India' on various current affairs topics.