Sold Souls-Chained Existences

By Raja Sharma

Some souls are sprawled on sofas and some on the floor. There is a kind of odour in the room which gives the sense of staleness and the dying scent of the flowers bought last night. Supreme Soul has her own large bed in one corner of the drawing room. She has her own bathroom and a cupboard. Master can share things with her. He lives with her and takes care of all her financial business and arrangement of new souls from other places. In one corner, kept high on a shelf on the wall, there is a television showing an old Hindi movie. It is 1:00 pm and the sun is high. The souls generally get up at midday and do the works like cooking, cleaning, and washing clothes. At about 5:00 pm, they get ready for the real business and wait in the drawing room for the prospective customers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Sep 3, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465725554

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Sold Souls-Chained Existences

By Raja Sharma

Copyright@2011Raja Sharma

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Chapter 1: Act I

Scene I

Supreme Soul: Get ready, quickly! You! Are you listening to me?

Boy: Shall I bring tea, Madam?

1st Soul: For me too! I feel totally fucked up!

2nd Soul: Bread for me and a glass of milk.

Supreme Soul: No milk, today. Take tea, income is not good!

3rd Soul: I earned you more than three thousand last night? I will have milk and jalebi.

Master: You are not in your in-laws’ house. Eat what is given to you.

(The souls have been sleeping all over the place in one large drawing room and adjoining three cabins. Some are sprawled on sofas and some on the floor. There is a kind of odour in the room which gives the sense of staleness and the dying scent of the flowers bought last night. Supreme Soul has her own large bed in one corner of the drawing room. She has her own bathroom and a cupboard. Master can share things with her. He lives with her and takes care of all her financial business and arrangement of new souls from other places. In one corner, kept high on a shelf on the wall, there is a television showing an old Hindi movie. It is 1:00 pm and the sun is high. The souls generally get up at midday and do the works like cooking, cleaning, and washing clothes. At about 5:00 pm, they get ready for the real business and wait in the drawing room for the prospective customers.)

2th Soul: I can’t stand it anymore!

4th Soul (in a whisper): Don’t speak loudly! You will be beaten if Master hears you.

(They look at the other souls who are gradually waking up and leaving the drawing room. 2th Soul has a one hundred rupee note hidden in her blouse. It was