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Yashpaul Kalra

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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Title: Strangers in an unknown train Yakshaya K

Submitted to Contest #100

We all by some queer and cynical network of circumstances had been even totally unknown strangers happened to be jostled into each other in a bungalow of Kamlesh Patel at Pittsburgh. It happened just one year back when I had gone there to see my son Ashish along with his family there. My son as of course my son accepted his invitation without an iota of any objection. He also had a keen yearning to show us to his friends. It was a spectacular row of bungalows all so systematically synthesized at Higher Cleves in an elegant area so remarkable...

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Title: Reminiscence of peeping into childhood to attaining first teens

Submitted to Contest #99

It is a matter quite amazing to me to recollect few happenings from my childhood to my first teen’s age at sixteen. I still remember the first school around five years in ‘Cosmopolitan Middle School in Karachi in 1941 when I was five. I have fading Memories of Punjabi Sikh teachers and two old ones who were Christians. I remember all the years till the year of partition in August 1947 when I had seen or heard the cold blooded murder of Punjabi people captured in a Gurudwara.I ...

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Title assigned: Optimistic outlook to Luck!

Submitted to Contest #98

Manmohan the main protagonist of this good luck or Bad luck of this unfortunate story began his career at the age of twenty-two only getting a job of an office clerk at the Central Secretariat Office just four years after partition of India in 1951 when he was twenty-four years. Quite appropriate age not very late in life. He got a starting salary of one hundred and fifty rupees which was not a bad start in those years. &nbs...

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Title: The ghost appearing in the middle of night

I could never believe that ghosts were ever there. However it seems logical that there can be a ghost if any person commits a Suicide or has been murdered brutally. Such a person rebels against the natural law of God because it is only He who has decided his time of death. He cannot get a birth till the determined time of his exit. There is some or other reason for The appearance of a ghost. In Shakespeare’s play entitled ‘‘Hamlet’ the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears before him. The Ghost of his father wanted to have his revenge from his br...

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Title: A sordid lies conspiracy

Submitted to Contest #88

Virendra Singh I the primary protagonist with his wife named Shubhashani. This couple was almost a replica of Shakespeare’s tragic drama named “Macbeth”. Macbeth had a great ambition of becoming the King of Denmark and this couple Virendra and Subhashini wanted to become owners of one Property as the sole owners. But there were four someone elder and some other Youngers who too were entitled to get their shares out of their father’s properties, other properties in Comparisons were of quiet lesser financial values. It is generally a known fac...

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Title: Wrong Mental Operations

Not very far away from this city lived once in the year 1921 a land-lord of considerable wealth of those old times when even few thousands meant a lot of money. He was a rich man with Several acres of land lent for cultivation. He gave the land but in The bargain the labouring farmers had even to leave girls from their family to entertain his hours of the night. He had been married twenty=eight years back but by this time he had become awfully tired of his wife whose constant tantrums only Became a constant source of head-ache to his peacefu...

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Title of the story: She dug the deep pit…

Somewhere deep in the years that have elapsed and the characters of this ensuing story have crossed sixty fives and are almost on the threshold of seventy around, less or more. It can be easily conjectured that he, Mr. Shanush lost his hold on his wife , but in the past thirty years back it was he who had hold on her and he could easily twist her ears but now she could twist the hidden panther in his white trousers. It had stopped its’ green rising signal but yet it wanted to play t...

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Divorce Unfulfilled

Sweta Chopra now thirty-five years woman was working as a Managing Director of multi-national companies of great fame of International medical companies drawing eight lacks with a bungalow and car as well from the companies. She had Also an employed cook and a caretaker for her eight year old boy,Nikhil Sood and her daughter six years, namely Pratiksha Sood. She had divorced her husband Jagdish Sood in 2018 who Was permitted to visit her residence every Sunday from ten to twelv...

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“Honeymoon Not Permitted”

Submitted to Contest #83

Content warning: adult content It was usually a social norm in the years of nineteen sixties when a girl with B.A. and B.Ed. was very much Preferred than other ordinary girls less educated. Even if a boy was just Higher Secondary the parents preferred a girl who was working as a school teacher.. The boys had an upper hand in the society simply because the boys are males. Males were more important and would also get gold worth good value in terms of money. Ms Sarla Bajaj’s son w...

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Title: Android as a human companion by Yakshaya K

Submitted to Contest #82

In this fast moving times of internet technology friendship of Human beings has been replaced by Android human communication. It has become a most loveable friend connecting people from different countries to have video chats and even see each other. Android has become a life breath of Modern society without any distinction of caste, colour, religion or nationality. &nbs...

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A brother’s tyranny

Submitted to Contest #79

David Copperfield was very badly treated by his step-father Mr. Darcy so much so that he had to runaway to have a shelter in the house of his aunt. A tongue used in bad manner is even more pinching than getting some slaps. This was the state of one Mr. Narendra who was badly treated by his younger brother by eight years. Narendra spoke about this matter to one of his close friends Mr. Manmohan: “I have been very badly treated by none other but a younger brother Rajesh. Is it not a shameful matter and how l is suffering under this negative re...

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The Hobby- a serpent entangled neck by Yakshaya K

Submitted to Contest #78

Daniel Brian born under which evil stars began eating cockroaches, ants and even lizards and by the age of twelve he Had established a big Hobby Hall wherein he kept a vast collection of many lizards, scorpions, pigs and pigeons as well. This collection of different earthly, air and ocean deep water Animals too were very meticulously collected. At the age of seventeen he made it open to the public at five dollars a ticket. Money began to rush in his coffers and gradually it led to the Expansion of his hobby. He was so madly obsessed W...

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Snowfall or death cocoon by Dr Y.P. Kalra

At this ripe age of 78 years slides of various pictures come in the reflecting mirror of advancing times that at the present moment have gone. Experiences whether they are joyful or painful remain in the mind and some happenings are just erasable. They leave positive or negative influences. There happen certain very unfortunate incidents that leave pains for the rest of the whole life. Some most unexpected occurrences leave painful stains on the mind of the sufferer. My name is Christian Brunner and my whole family and my f...

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The Animal’s kingdom

Title:- The Animal’s kingdom No sooner the dogs of the street see me coming on my electric two wheeler they start barking within Themselves threatening the other two to get lost, Selfish one’s are always selfish whether its’ dogs or even any of the Human-beings. Dogs and man are even same in several ways. They are also much higher compared to Man In sexual aspects. It is like “ Survival of the Fittest.” They drive off the other two so that the three that are left want to eat the maximum biscuits. ‘Get lost you damn rascals coming t...

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Between Failures and Conquering of Resolutions

Submitted to Contest #75

Could it be sealed as a stigma of indolence and lethargy that Prof. Vijay Kumar lost or suffered a gross failure during the years between 1972 to 1981 when almost ten resolutions were Made probably without strong will power without actual realization. The truth is that a resolution Had not been made in the true sense of the word. For ten years I did nothing at all. I had become a person without even a dot of confidence. “ I cannot get a GUIDE. There is none in this...

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