Kindle Countdown Deal - A Good Old Rumor! and other stories

Dear friends,

With the pandemic of Novel Corona virus swirling around the globe, lots of rumors concerning it are also doing the rounds.

Rumors can make or break things. Hence one must refrain from spreading rumors just for the heck of it.

A Kindle Countdown Deal will be on from 5th to 12th April, 2020 for my e-book titled A Good Old Rumor! and other stories at www.amazon.com.

It will be available for just  $0.99 at a whopping discount of 67%

Kindly peruse it and let me have your invaluable feedback. You could even peruse my other 16 e-books and paperback novels.

Thanks.
Priya Swaminathan

P.S. No, this is not a rumor, though it sounds too good to be true!

Excerpt from a story in this book

Alan Great

           

           One day, a pretty young girl named Charlotte walked into the Club and into my life. She was also blonde, had the bluest eyes ever, just like the sky on a sunny summer afternoon, was slightly freckled and most charming. Her elegant gowns in pastels enraptured all the gals there. Her smile bedazzled all the blokes there. She had many suitors but she chose me. I felt honored and privileged. I later asked her why she had chosen me. She said “You are different.” 

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           On my 16^th birthday, I asked her out for a date. We went into the woods and sat under a tree, with a picnic basket. She had her head on my lap and I was sitting with my back against a huge tree. She was pretty in her sunny yellow apron frock and small matching cap. In great spirits, she was humming a merry tune and looking up at me with those lovely blue eyes. I saw the sky reflected in them.

         

           Suddenly Alexander took over me and I asked, “So what’s so different about me Charlie?”

          

           She laughed and those freckles reddened. Then she laughed harder. I found it strange. Fascinating!

          

           Then warning bells began to ring in my head.

          

           “You’re weird!” she said and then repeated for good measure, as if I was deaf, “You are weird!”

          

            Something snapped within me. A deafening roar filled my ears. Hot, molten lava erupted through the boiling crater and burst out with a terrifying blast. The clouds turned red. The lava turned everything on its way into ash. Those on its fringes, it singed black; with hatred! The lava wound itself through everything that challenged its right of way and smothered it till it could dare no more!

          

           The audacity of that chit of a girl! Charlie lay smothered and lifeless on my lap. I had strangled her so quickly; she didn’t even get a chance to scream. Well, served her right! How dare she mock me, The Greatest Ever…!

           

           I dragged her lifeless, yet pretty body, deep into the woods and pushed her into a ravine. The picnic basket followed her, in case she felt hungry later!

          

           But her bulging blue eyes haunted me ever since.

END OF EXCERPT

Intrigued? Read on to find out what happens next..... Happy reading!

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