Friday, June 05, 2020

If You Sing Like That For Me


If You Sing Like That For Me is a short story by Akhil Sharma. You can read it online here. It begins,
Late one June afternoon, seven months after my wedding, I woke from a short, deep sleep, in love with my husband. I did not know then, lying in bed and looking out the window at the line of gray clouds, that my love would last only a few hours and that I would never again care for Rajinder with the same urgency — never again in the five homes we would share and through the two daughters and one son we would also share, though unevenly and with great bitterness. I did not know this then, suddenly awake and only twenty-six, with a husband not much older, nor did I know that the memory of the coming hours would periodically overwhelm me throughout my life.

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  1. Now the start of that story certainly catches your attention. I'm off to read it. Happy Friday.

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    1. It pulled me in :) I hope you like it!

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  2. ...and singing will keep you sane.

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    1. We need something that will, don't we!

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  3. Talk about an opening paragraph! I'm off to read this one.

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  4. This is a very intriguing beginning which pulls me in....Valerie

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    1. Yes! Short stories need to do that, I think, not having the time and space of a novel to draw the reader in slowly.

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  5. That was so terribly sad to me. Written well, but terribly sad.

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