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Preface
It is always my dream to become a writer and to write and publish books and the writing and the publication of this book is certainly a great and significant step in this direction. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks and gratitude to Monomousumi for providing me the opportunity to publish this book. I always loved to read stories and novels since my childhood. This has also led to the nurturing of the desire within me to write and publish stories and join in the big league with famous writers such as Charles Dickens, JK Rowling and Sidney Sheldon.
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Interestingly I remember writing my first short story which was a fantasy based short story when I was about 9 or 10 years old and showing it to our family doctor when I went to visit him with my mother and father. From then on, I started writing short stories whenever the idea for a short story clicked and I began to write them down and also show them to my parents, teachers and friends. Then I listened to their feedback and comments about my stories in order to improve them. I have written short stories from a variety of genres such as crime and fantasy and my mother and father have always been very supportive of me writing short stories and always encouraged me to write creative and amazing short stories. I also would like to thank them a lot for being a constant source of support and encouragement for me during my short stories writing endeavour.
Actually, the seed for writing this book, which is collection of short stories written by me was sown two years ago when I had finished my undergraduate degree and was on a vacation. It was then an idea struck me that why shouldn’t I look up and read some famous short stories written in English, observe how they are written and structured. Then I could also write short stories based on the knowledge gathered from reading them. Another reason for embarking on this new venture during that time was that there was a flurry of ideas for short stories coming to me. Thus, I decided to utilize this opportunity and write down as many short stories as I could. As I read some of the famous short stories and marvelled at them, I gathered more knowledge about the genre of short stories and also learnt how to write short stories. It was a great learning process for me as I learnt the basics of writing short stories.
Most of the short stories in this book such as The Secret, Genie in the Lamp, Rising from the Ashes and Danger are what I had written during this time period and I had also rewritten and fine-tuned them in order to make them better during the process of editing this book. While some of the other stories such as the White-Bearded Man, Alternative and Connections are interesting short stories which I have written and posted it in my blog and thus I have decided to include them in this book also. While another short story, A strange and interesting journey was a short story which I had written and submitted for a creative writing competition organized by an association in my university while I was pursuing my postgraduate degree. Interestingly, I had not planned to publish these short stories which I had written down two years ago as a book, but when I received an opportunity to write and publish a book, I eventually decided to write and publish a collection of short stories including those which I have written earlier after much thought and deliberation, as writing short stories was what I was very comfortable with.
The sources of inspiration for my short stories are the twists and turns that we experience in our daily lives and some interesting and peculiar incidents and events which I have seen and heard. The basic premise of the story The White Bearded Man was inspired from the classic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner which was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge while the short story Alternative was inspired from the novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles and its film adaptation. My short stories are from various genres such as satire, science fiction and drama.
I had also created fictional countries such as Cook City and Animal Land, the latter being a country in which anthropomorphic animals and humans reside together as I thought that these fictional countries could be perfect locations for my short stories to take place and to convey the essence of them. My decision of creating the fictional country Animal Land was inspired by the famous classic novel Animal Farm by the famous writer George Orwell. In addition to this, I was also inspired by the short stories written by the famous American short story writer O. Henry. I hope that you all would enjoy reading my short stories.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
K. Saravanapperumal is an avid reader and writer who loves reading and writing and his other interests include research, history, cricket and psychoanalysis. His favourite authors are Charles Dickens, R.L.Stevenson, Jules Verne and the Tamil writer Kalki Krishnamurthy. Swami Vivekananda, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and the famous broadcasting journalist Edward Murrow are his role models in life. He was born in Singapore and now resides in Madurai, India with his parents.
He had completed his undergraduate degree in Communicative English, Political Science and Economics (CPE) from St .Joseph’s College, now St. Joseph’s University, Bangalore and a postgraduate degree in Media and Communication Studies with a specialization in Multimedia Journalism from Christ (Deemed to be) University, Bangalore. He is aspiring to puruse and complete a doctral degree in Journalism and also become a journalist or academic working in the field of journalism research.
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