Stories: From a Different Experience, #1

By Aciis Khatiwada

This book contains eight brilliant short stories that will surely make your reading worthwhile. 

If you are interested in a new style of writing along with fresh ideas and contexts then this is the book you need to buy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aciis Khatiwada
• Release date: May 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201689766

Book preview

Sun that Sets in the West

Mureal Caine was the daughter of a fisherman who lived in a small cottage house in Purt le Moirrey [Port St. Mary], Isle of Man. Her father Sigurd Caine during winter used to travel to Whitehaven to get supplies of coal necessary for the households of his native land. Everybody around him always laid their love and affection for the man. Her mother Aelid who once used to make lobster pots out of the willow trees died due to extreme fever a couple of years ago.

One fine morning, Joe Bill Joe, a local shipbuilder came to their house, he was looking for something.

Joe Bill Joe :  (C'raad t'ou, Siggy?) Where are you, Siggy?

Mureal  : (comes out from her house) He’s not home. He’s out.

Joe Bill Joe:  (Cre gys?) For what purpose?

Mureal:  Well, to fish with his friends, probably. It’s the fishing season. Don’t you know?

Joe Bill Joe:  A fishing season!

Mureal:  Yes, a fishing season.

Joe Bill Joe:  Well, I make ships not bait hooks ....or nets. But isn’t every season a fishing season?

For we live on an island.

Mureal:  Well, It’s the month of June and sea trout are in plenty in the rivers at this time.

Joe Bill Joe:  Where are his hooks dipped in today? Do ya know little girl?

Mureal:  Could be Neb or Silverburn. With this fishing thing, one could never tell. 

Joe Bill Joe:  Whichever it is the place must be a chock-a-block right now!

Mureal:  I was in the middle of doing my homework, Mr. Bill. Would you mind me getting  

back at it?

Joe Bill Joe:  Ah, you and your homework thing. How kids of today are going to build the world

without knowing to put in a nail with a hammer? What’s that paper thing going to  

do? [A pause, silence] When the paper’s all wet, you need something solid to hang on    

to. Saves you from drowning.

Mureal:  Bye, Mr. Bill. Good day!

Joe Bill Joe:  Take care, Kid.

[Joe Bill Joe leaves]

In his tractor, Joe Bill Joe headed to Neb at first, he didn’t find Sigurd there. He then headed to Silverburn, but again didn’t find Sigurd there too. 

Amazed, angry and irritated, old Bill goes to have a look out in the fish market thinking Mureal’s father might have been there first to make a deal before going fishing. If he would know the type of fish for which the deal was made, he would then try to figure out where Sigurd Caine might have headed to or so he thought.

Joe Bill Joe:  (Amanda! Ren oo aspickys Siggy jiu?) Amanda! Did you see Siggy today?

Amanda:  (Jiooldey glen, Mainshter Bill.) No, Mr. Bill

Joe Bill Joe:  Have anyone here seen good old lad Sigurd Caine this morning?

God, it is 11 already!

Amanda:  I think he went to the workshop to get new hooks and nets.

Joe Bill Joe:  What? A workshop! Like a workshop where we make parts for the ship?

Amanda:  Well, I am just a fishmonger, Mr. Bill. How would I know what goes in a workshop!

Joe Bill Joe:  Just a fishwife. Very well.

Amanda:  Excuse me, Sir.  [Pauses for a moment in anger]  I am good mannered.

Joe Bill Joe heads out without saying anything further. Amanda at this time is busy with a customer, slightly irritated from the last exchange she had with old Mr. Bill.

Joe Bill Joe:  (Talks to himself) where are you my lad?

Suddenly, Bill’s eye lit up. He starts running towards the direction of the river, river Neb. He then suddenly stops and tells his tractor driver Dillon to bring the tractor towards him. He forgot about the tractor in all excitement.

Joe Bill Joe:  Head towards Neb, Dillon.

Dillon:   We’ve just been there an hour ago!

Joe Bill Joe:  Let’s just go.

They arrive at river Neb. Upon arrival, Joe jumps out of the tractor and start running towards the forest by the banks of the river. After passing by a few trees, Joe Bill Joe spots Sigurd Caine lying down on the ground. He was taking a nap. The grass was thick and comfortable to lie down. Sigurd was empty handed, no fishing rods or nets, no catch around him too.

Joe Bill Joe:  Wake up boy. Wake up, Siggy.

Sigurd Caine wakes up in amusement and finds Joe pushing against his body to make him break his sleep.

Sigurd Caine:  What is it? What happened? Can’t a man take a nap? (He speaks in irritated voice)

Joe Bill Joe:  Where is