JYOTHI KRISHNAN M

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2022

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“The True Colour of Bookmanship” by JYOTHI KRISHNAN M

Submitted to Contest #251

I opened the book as soon as I got a seat on the train. I was eager to resume Preeti Shenoy's beautiful novel 'A Hundred Little Flames.' The narration is brilliant, and the story is so convincing that whenever you close it, you feel like beginning again from where you have stopped. The surroundings look similar as the plot was developed around a remote village in central Kerala, with most of the characters a Keralite must have seen daily; this is something that attached me to the book. I bent down to pick up the bookmark, which dropped from ...

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“Acrophob 'I' a” by JYOTHI KRISHNAN M

Submitted to Contest #206

I looked towards the horizon; the sky's blue was merging somewhere with a lighter version of the sea. The light blue color far above my head with foam-shaped white clouds, a sight I have always enjoyed, was frightening this time, and with trembling feet, I glanced downwards; the ground was much far below, and it seemed the sky is closer to me than the ground. My wife, watching from the base of the tall rocket-shaped metal frame, appeared like a small toy. The wind blowing from the sky was ...

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Author bio

An engineer by education and a writer by passion