They spoke about this and that. There is no dearth of topics to engage in conversation, especially between two averagely read individuals. They tried to hide their discomfort at this unusual set-up. It was like getting to know someone on a first date. Except that these were two individuals who had played together, shared a home and loved one another. And now that knowledge seemed to be the biggest obstacle to communicating. There were answers one wanted, there were answers the other didn’t have, replies were terser and more guarded as the minutes passed.
“Henry…’ she pleaded, “I am your Dad.”
‘I have never doubted it for a moment. But it just doesn’t feel right”, he said.
Henry Gopalakrishnan hoped the evening would end soon and he could run back to the familiar loneliness of his empty house.
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Henry Gopalakrishnan
..or Henrietta.
That's the title of my new book/short story, whichever finishes faster.
Beak dreams of making it to the Fortune 500* by the time he is 35**.I laugh at him, but I don't let people ridicule my novelist pipe dream. It's funny because he has no idea what business he wants to be in, in much the same way as I have no clue what I want to write about.
And both of us just know, intuitively,that we will.
:)
Errata:-*actually, the Forbes Millionaire list , and **by the time retires at an earlier age than 35.
That's the title of my new book/short story, whichever finishes faster.
Beak dreams of making it to the Fortune 500* by the time he is 35**.I laugh at him, but I don't let people ridicule my novelist pipe dream. It's funny because he has no idea what business he wants to be in, in much the same way as I have no clue what I want to write about.
And both of us just know, intuitively,that we will.
:)
Errata:-*actually, the Forbes Millionaire list , and **by the time retires at an earlier age than 35.
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