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    A Love Letter to Death
    A Love Letter to Death
    A Love Letter to Death
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    A Love Letter to Death

    By Nicko Shoid

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    A poet married to life has a side affair with death. His desire to meet death is left unfulfilled due to his realization of responsibilities towards life. Through his poems of varied themes, he decides to change things for good and surrenders his existence as a tribute to life. As a creator, he wants to influence world through his creations and manages to live in them. He keeps his affair with death a secret and confesses that he would reveal it to the world once he is sure that he would be forever alive. Through various poems, reader is made to see different shades of lifesome dark and some bright.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPartridge Publishing India
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781482889444
    A Love Letter to Death
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    Nicko Shoid

    Hailing from Surat, Nicko Shoid is an Alumni of Fergusson College, Pune. Pursuing Journalism, he is a contributing author to an anthology and editor of some institutional magazines and newsletters. Apart from his poems, the author is known for his Bollywood reviews, interviews, articles and scripts.

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      Book preview

      A Love Letter to Death - Nicko Shoid

      A Love Letter

      to Death

      Nicko Shoid

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      Copyright © 2017 by Nicko Shoid.

      ISBN:           Softcover             978-1-4828-8945-1

                           eBook                   978-1-4828-8944-4

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      This entire book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance with living or dead is purely a coincidence.

      www.partridgepublishing.com/india

      Surrendered to Life

      Contents

      Prologue

      •   Forbidden Mother

      Mrs. Gossip queen

      •   Madness

      Brewery of Mortals

      •   Your eyes told me

      My First Love

      It’s time to love

      Heart Beats

      •   Sunrise at Kanchenjunga

      When nature calls

      Gulmohar

      Dry

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