Jeena R. Papaadi

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About Jeena R. Papaadi
Jeena R. Papaadi is the author of six books: "Rat, Rabbit, Rock!" (novel), "Fumes" (anthology of stories), "Shadows of the Past and other stories" (anthology of stories), "Tales from the Garden City" (anthology of stories), "Temple of Time" (novel) and "Lonely Journeys" (a collection of poems).
Her short stories were featured in ‘Wisdom of Our Mothers: Indian Edition,’ published by Familia Books, USA, and ‘Nude and Other Stories’ published by The MAG. Her story is featured in an upcoming multi-author anthology titled "Narratives in Monochrome".
Her website is jeenapapaadi.com. Jeena is active on social media. You can find her on Twitter (@jeenapapaadi), Instagram (@jeenapapaadi), Facebook and Linkedin. Jeena lives in Bengaluru with her husband and son.
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They thought I must have hit my head and lost my memory – or worse, lost my head itself. In their murmurs I thought I discerned the word 'hysteria'. When I was in school we learned hysteria and epilepsy together. We knew the latter from movies, but what was hysteria? Someone said hysteria was excessive laughter so we had a lot of fun with that word. If ever anyone laughed we accused them of suffering from hysteria and then we laughed hysterically too. I never forgot the word, though at the moment that was not my problem. Perhaps no one had uttered that word, it might have been my memory playing tricks as usual.
FUMES is a collection of stories about ordinary people who experience one extraordinary day in their lives, and how that defines them, or alters them. And how they deal with their fears, mistakes, betrayal, revenge, love and, most importantly, hope.
A parasite that feeds on an unsuspecting couple...
A young woman who stares into the face of love and makes a difficult decision...
An old woman who has mastered the art of life...
A twelve year old who has made a grave mistake - and has a narrow escape...
A woman who has lost her way, unable to cope with her loss...
A wise person once said, "Coincidences do happen, that's why they have a name."
Sometimes these coincidences stop us on our tracks and make us wonder, “Was that really just a coincidence – or did the hand of Destiny strike ever so gently?” We call them ‘eerie’ or ‘uncanny’, or ‘a miracle’ or ‘a stroke of luck’ or ‘fate’.
“Shadows of the Past” takes you to the crossroads where coincidence meets luck, miracle meets destiny, on the thin line between the strange and the eerie. Maybe those incidents are indeed mere coincidences, and there is nothing inexplicable about them. I leave you to judge.
Soon afterwards, Abhijeet finds to his shock that his brother is still alive, but in a horrifying condition and on the verge of death, at the very same place he was last seen. Abhijeet is left with a curious last message that he tries to decipher, for he feels the answer to his brother's disappearance lies in it.
He embarks on a journey to the past, to piece together the events that led to the fateful day years ago, seeking to discover his brother's footprints and finding himself in the process.