Paddu Menon

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2019

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“Life’s beautiful and gay” by Paddu Menon

Life is Beautiful and gay. Her mind flashbacked to the events that had led up to her lolling on the bed. She started to giggle even as the immediate past unfurled. She pushed away her fat cat who always travelled with her and sipped ice cold water and popped a headache pill. That took care of her pounding headache. .The tooth had been fixed. The spouse would wait! The plot thickens!! Weeke...

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“Suffocation” by Paddu Menon

Submitted to Contest #86

SUFFOCATION.by Paddu Menon Today. It was the first thought that came to her as she woke up. He was gone. And, soon, this bedroom, the house in whose eastern corner it sat, and the tiny garden outside with its gnarled old red hibiscus and the half-grown mango tree they had planted together, all those would be gone as well. It was the strangest feeli...

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“Beauty and the huge beast” by Paddu Menon

Submitted to Contest #16

Once upon a time there lived in Surya apartments a Mr Menon and his family of three daughters. He was a business man and very well off. Two of his daughters Veena and Veera were married and settled abroad. His youngest and favourite daughter Vasumathi worked in IBM and mostly worked from home. Mr Menon was busy looking for alliances for her but she said she was too busy to get married! He knew that it was because she did not want to leave him alone and go away. “But that’s life” , he had told her many times. She would just laugh it ...

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