Daya Mukherjee

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jul, 2020

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“The Road Taken” by Daya Mukherjee

The sun was about to set, finally deciding to withdraw its scorching glances, as it were, from the long-suffering populace of Haripur, a small, remote town in Uttar Pradesh. Relief, however, was partial, for the burning rays of the merciless sun were replaced only by the utter heaviness in the air, the dull stillness in which not a leaf moves or a blade of grass sways. Just a laborious waiting for nightfall when darkness takes some of the sting out of yet another blazing day. It was the infamous North Indian summer after all and it h...

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“One Morning, in the Waiting Room….” by Daya Mukherjee

Submitted to Contest #49

The female attendant in my ophthalmologist’s office escorted me to the waiting area and helped me ease myself into the typical chromium-plated metal chairs that one sees across hospital waiting rooms. Cold, unfriendly and uncomfortable. No, don’t get me wrong. My eyesight is fine, and has been fine these 65-odd summers. Of course, I do need to wear reading glasses, but that’s quite normal for someone my age, isn’t it? No, the reason I was at the receiving end of such solicitude was that I had had eye drops put into both my eyes to dilate the...

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