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    The Cockatiel Confessions and Other Collected Works
    The Cockatiel Confessions and Other Collected Works
    The Cockatiel Confessions and Other Collected Works
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    The Cockatiel Confessions and Other Collected Works

    By Lavanya Srinivasan

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    The hilarious exploits of a domesticated cockatiel and an oft-forgotten yet faintly remembered celestial journey.

    A young woman trades away her life credits while a mother elsewhere gently chides her young son.

    What could possibly happen when a tribal chieftain meets a time traveler?

    What on earth is a wribulizer and why is the moon actually blue!

    How does an up-and-coming writer deal with the terror of murderous thugs ransacking her home while her scientist brother vanishes after leaving her with a secret formula?

    What is the connect between a golden apple tree and an old man tending to his potted plant?

    To enjoy all of these tales and more, read on!

    Below are a few book extracts:

    " I don’t remember when I was born or how many times I was transported before I first saw “Chirp”, my human and her mate “Chirp-chirp”. I have heard it said
    before by Fuff-fuff, the resident sage of my first non tree nest (a yellow-red mishmash of colours and an upturned beak) that first impressions are often the truest but
    I have to admit, my first peek at Chirp and Chirp-Chirp was not positive."
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    " As my journey continued, I remembered how, I too, had once been worshipped and deemed important enough to be tracked in the ancient texts and star calendars. I had witnessed the birth of their saviour and the magi who had divined his birth by tracking my journey. The huge monuments that was raised in the honour of false gods and eschewed later.

    As centuries passed and their artificial lights lit up their homes, the humans now had the audacity to transmit probes and crafts for intercepting me. What had happened to their awe and their respect? Yet, I felt myself growing smaller and feebler on every journey past as I lose a little bit of my strength and size over the years.

    The sun whispers that civilizations rise and die but I would endure for eons. I sigh as the consolatory words don’t achieve their objective of cheering me up. I pine for the centuries past and the time lost."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLavanya Srinivasan
    Release dateJul 20, 2018
    ISBN9780463652633
    The Cockatiel Confessions and Other Collected Works
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    Lavanya Srinivasan

    Lavanya Srinivasan is a chartered accountant and a finance professional passionate about world mythology and spinning fantasy tales. Lavanya has previously authored two fantasy novels: Maya & the Mind Mystics; The God, The Girl and The Gem published in Amazon. A bibliophile fictionado writer, she also dabbles in sci-fi and humour short story pieces at her personal site, www.thelavmuse.com. Lavanya describes herself as a crazy wodehouse fan and as someone who is always in search of proof of the possibility of multiverse travel.

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