The Hostages of God

By Mayuresh Shrinivas Kulkarni

“I want to stay on a remote unknown island, not for the sake of sagacity, but to accompany my loneliness. On that full moon night, Mozart played the first symphony he ever composed on violin for me on the crystal-white terrace of Salzburg Castle.
After that, I started believing in the melody of God.
However, I know they will never award my residence the status of a World Heritage Site. No issues, but they still don’t know that it is that place which God often visits to drink with me and to share some lighter moments.”
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By turns witty, acerbic, surreal and playfully philosophical, the thirteen short stories in verse form that make up The Hostages of God show the full extent of their author’s unique world-view and wonderfully expansive imagination.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Mar 31, 2021
• ISBN: 9781398420922

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Mayuresh Shrinivas Kulkarni

The Hostages of God

Copyright © Mayuresh Shrinivas Kulkarni (2021)

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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We never sailed,

but we died

on the deck of a

wrecked ship!!

A Child Prodigy

The horses are white

and so are their

tails,

but what about the

minute black spots

on their bodies?

Does it have any

significance to their

last birth or

does the answer lie

in the genetics

of their breed?

Maybe,

but you will

never understand the

complexity of the

problem!

He is barely

five years old,

but he knows the

answer

because he has

the same black spots