Just Before the First Ray

By R S Ramanujam

Ours is a beautiful, magical world. Believing in the miracle of life all around us, in objects sentient and insentient, seen and unseen, lets us get closer to the world and communicate with her.

The world reveals her bounties and their souls to those that are ready to surrender themselves and embrace her gifts at anytime, more so to those that have the initiative to embark on the journey, when it is still dark, just before the first ray.

This book is a collection of my trysts with the world that have manifested in the form of short stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R S Ramanujam
• Release date: Oct 10, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370432646

R S Ramanujam

Hello! I am Ramanujam (Ram), An agile coach by day and a writer by night, I write in the realistic and contemporary fiction genres. I sometimes tend to drift into believing that I am a good satirist only to quickly dismiss such delusions with a contemptuous laugh and get back to reality.

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