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66. Short Story : The Blame

I was always a man of moment even then I never tried anything like this before. For rich people like me,  I felt that leaving their wives was no big thing. I had googled lives of famous people. That calmed me down. At least, I was not alone. A lot of people have gone through what I have gotten into. But I have done  something now that no one had ever done apart from me. Probably, Shiny Ahuja will be an exception but then his life was all over after that. I would never imagine to have fate like that. I believe that if I am going down with something then I am going for something worse. Not this. I never liked her anyways. She was dirty and there was always this pungent smell that came from her which I never liked. It felt like she was unhygienic, never took a bath, lived in dirt and she was in fact unhygienic and dirty. My wife has told me once that she used to work at eight households to make her ends meet. You can smell poor from a dist...

59. Short Story : Moving On.

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There was water dripping from the tap and he was looking at it for last fifteen minutes. Mother shouts at him, “What are you doing inside for so long”. He has no answer. He cannot tell her that he himself doesn’t know what he is doing inside. He is young, his mother must be thinking that he might be jerking off. Otherwise why would he take so much time inside? He moved towards the bucket which was half full. He had this ritual where he would always empty all bucket water before filling it again with new water in it. May be it was his another technique to take a bath or may be he just needed some alone time. He remembered how when was he was a kid he used to stall getting a bath during winters and never liked it. When he grew up came a time when he wouldn’t start a day without getting water on his body first. His mother started calling him pandit and he hated that. But suddenly something changed in him. He got rude to everyone. He wouldn’t get haircut. He wouldn’t remain clean...