An Artsy Life: Collection of Short Stories: a Classic

By Jane Summers

The life, culture, tradition and seasons, portrayed in this book, are glimpses of life, lived through time.
A collection of stories, expressions, thoughts and contexta weave for time!
A focus of thoughts, patterns and rigors of life, embodied into stories. A way of life, translated into short stories, an overview of life lived. The stories have a reference in time, of the early 1900s.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 23, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984509604

Jane Summers

Jane Summers wrote Durvue, new language dictionary. She produced and directed a movie, Autumn Sacred, released March, 2023. She played the role of Jane Summers in the movie highlighting Autumn as an auspicious season and sacred for autumn prayers and autumn harmony. The movie is available on IMDb. The author is planning to publish two new books, next year. The new Marquis Biography book 2023 features Jane Summers with her biography and details and will release sometime this year. Jane Summers released a commemorative coin, in July 2022. The coin has a insignia of Peace and Harmony.

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Copyright © 2018 by Durga Madiraju

ISBN:                  Softcover                      978-1-9845-0959-8

                            eBook                           978-1-9845-0960-4

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Rev. date: 02/22/2018

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Contents

Foreword

Story 1     A shop gone unnoticed

Story 2     A Night in the street

Story 3     Autumnal Wanderer

Story 4     A day in an Antique Store

Story 5     A Farmer’s Land

Story 6     A Devotional Family – An Art

Story 7     A Tea Shoppe

Story 8     A Farmer’s Burden Lightened

Story 9     A love for a book - An Art

Story 10   A Day’s Event Turned Into a Skill

Story 11   Summers I love….A Winter

Story 12   A weave not true

To my father Dr. Chinta Chidananda Rao (who is no more), my mother, Chinta Visalakshi, and my daughter, Anika Madiraju, who have helped me at all times..

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Foreword

The stories in this book are not real, and, bear no resemblance to real people whatsoever.

The life, culture, tradition and seasons, portrayed in this book, are glimpses of life, lived through history.

A collection of stories, expressions, thoughts and context…a weave for time!

A focus of thoughts, patterns and rigors of life, embodied into stories. A way of life, translated, into stories, for purposes of understanding. The stories have a reference in time, of the early 1900’s.

The theme, setting, and background of the stories, is a canvas of farms, villages, woods, and poetry, a portrait carved for time.

The autumn harvest signifies, and is a symbol of prosperity, joy and happiness, celebrated in the form of festivals. The festivals referred to, in this book, are Indian festivals and rituals.

The poems in each story, highlight the end note of a story… To ponder upon….of a new festival..

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Story 1

A shop gone unnoticed

It was a hot summer morning. The market street was the place everyone went to, for a steel utensil. There were several shoppers at the stores. The shops opened at 10:00 am every day. The shops were lined on either side of the streets. The roads were filled with street shoppers.

Walking past several shops, I noticed something amiss about this shop. I wanted to see why this shop went unnoticed. Is there something