BS Murthy

　　ISBN 9781310533877

　　Copyright © 2016 BS Murthy

　　Cover design of Gopi’s water color painting by Lattice Advertisers, Hyderabad.

　　Self Imprint

　　F-9, Nandini Mansion,

　　1-10-234, Ashok Nagar,

　　Hyderabad – 500 020

　　Foreword

　　With the addition of ‘Prey on the Prowl’ to my body of work, I thought the accretion was over without short story genre. Not that I didn’t try my hand at that, indeed I did, but finding the output wanting, I didn’t refill my pen again.

　　Maybe, literature was keen to have my contribution in this fictional sphere as well, so it seems, as beginning from July 2015, Vinita Dawra Nagia came up with “Write India Campaign of Times of India”. Her idea was to let the aspiring writers build their stories on the ‘prompts’ provided by eleven of India’s popular authors starting with Amish Tripathi.

　　When I penned Ilaa’s Ire on Amish’s prompt, it felt like I had crossed the unassailable frontier, and thereafter, for the next ten months, thanks to the prompts by Chetan Bhagat, Aswin Sanghi, Ravi Subramanian, Preeti Shenoy, Tuhin A. Sinha, Ravinder Singh, Durjoy Datta, Madhuri Banarjee, Jaisree Misra and Anita Nair, I had experienced the joy of short story writing.

　　That in the end, I could pen my Twelfth Tale, sans any prompting, perhaps, is a testimony to the success of Vinita’s Write India Campaign.

　　Dedicated to readers,

　　past, present ‘n future,

　　of my body of work,

　　in full or in part

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　　Story Titles

　　Story 1

Ilaa’s Ire

　　Story 2

‘201’ Qualms

　　Story 3

“?”

　　Story 4

Cupid’s Clue

　　Story 5

Autumn Love

　　Story 6

A Touch Affair

　　Story 7

Love’s How’s That?

　　Story 8

A Hearty Turn

　　Story 9

Love Jihad

　　Story 10

Tenth Nook

　　Story 11

Eleventh Hour

　　Story 12

Twelfth Tale

　　Other books by BS Murthy

　　Benign Flame – Saga of Love

　　Jewel-less Crown - Saga of Life

　　Crossing the Mirage – Passing through youth

　　Glaring Shadow – A stream of consciousness novel

　　Prey on the Prowl - A Crime Novel

　　Of No Avail: Web of Wedlock

A Novella

　　Onto the Stage – Slighted Souls and other stage and radio plays

　　Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife

　　Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of self – help

A translation in verse

　　Sundara Kãnda - Hanuman’s Odyssey

A translation in verse