Blue Letters: Children Book 6: Decision Series, #6

By Anand Prakash

Blue Letters
Decision Series 
Book # 6
Our decisions define us and our life is full of them.

In this short story, Lata finds that her outburst has no effect as her son, Bannu, shows no improvement in his studies. Bannu writes letters to explain his disinterest in studies. Lata has to decide whether affection can be a way to cure his disinterest.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anand Prakash
• Release date: Sep 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393113232

Anand Prakash

Anand Prakash is researcher by profession and writer by passion. In his fiction and poetry, he writes about relationships and their meanings. He has finished a collection of short stories and a book of poetry on relationships. Some of his experimental fictions have appeared in z-composition, Crack the Spine, Fictitious magazine, the Delinquent issue 20, Miser magazine issue VII. His writing can be found at http://authoranandprakash.com/ Email him at [e-mail] for comments about the story and questions on writing process. He looks forward to hear back from you.

Book preview

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Blue Letters

Chapter 1: The Neem tree

Chapter 2: The Letters

The First Letter

The Second Letter

The Third Letter

The Fourth Letter

Chapter 3: Unnatural Death

Chapter 4: Parents Teacher Meeting

Chapter 5: Jalebi

A Favor From The Reader

A Note From The Author

Dedication

For My Classmates

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Bhiwani

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This is for you,

Anand Prakash

Acknowledgments

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I will forever be thankful to everyone who supported my writing habit (friends, family, and Kofenya among all Caffeine places).

Thanks to extremely talented artist friend Shreyas Vernekar for wonderful cover. Follow him on Instagram: shreyasver.5

Chapter 1: The Neem tree

What has happened to you? When will we stop getting these letters? Do you know how much it costs us to send you to this boarding school? With this much money, we could put your siblings to other good schools. Or your father and I could sit tight and spend all the money on good food and good clothes and send all three of you to the government schools like all the other villages kids. Why do we bother to send you in the boarding school?

Lata looked at her son, Bannu. He squatted next to her with his head bowed low and his chin rested on his knees. He kept drawing circles over circles on the ground with a twig from a neem tree, under which they sat.

Are you going to say something or not? Lata