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    Cost of Dreams: Children Book 10: Decision Series, #10
    Cost of Dreams: Children Book 10: Decision Series, #10
    Cost of Dreams: Children Book 10: Decision Series, #10
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    Cost of Dreams: Children Book 10: Decision Series, #10

    By Anand Prakash

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    Cost of Dreams
     Decision Series
    Book # 10

     

    Our decisions define us and our life is full of them.

    In this short story, Lata goes to Manav Coaching Institute with her husband, Ramesh. Considering their monetary condition, she has to decide whether or not their hardworking son, Bannu, will be able to take AIPMT (All India Pre-Medical Test) coaching at No.1 Institute in the city.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnand Prakash
    Release dateSep 17, 2020
    ISBN9781393564584
    Cost of Dreams: Children Book 10: Decision Series, #10
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    Anand Prakash

    Anand Prakash is researcher by profession and writer by passion. In his fiction and poetry, he writes about relationships and their meanings. He has finished a collection of short stories and a book of poetry on relationships. Some of his experimental fictions have appeared in z-composition, Crack the Spine, Fictitious magazine, the Delinquent issue 20, Miser magazine issue VII. His writing can be found at http://authoranandprakash.com/ Email him at anandprakash026@gmail.com for comments about the story and questions on writing process. He looks forward to hear back from you.

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      Cost of Dreams - Anand Prakash

      Dedication

      Acknowledgments

      ––––––––

      Chapter 1:The Newspaper

      Chapter 2: Importance of Her Firstborn

      Chapter 3: Bannu's Dilemma

      Chapter 4: The Discussion

      Chapter 5: Bus Ride to the City

      Chapter 6: Manav Coaching Institute

      Chapter 7: Meeting with the Director

      Chapter 8: Bus Ride Back

      Chapter 9: Sulekha's Conversation with the Director

      Chapter 10: Just 300 Rupees

      Chapter 11: Belief

      A Favor From The Reader

      A Note From The Author

      Acknowledgments

      Thanks to Dr. Pradipta Banerjee for thoughtful critiques on this story, apart from discussion on Grant Morrison.

      ––––––––

      I will forever be thankful to everyone who supported my writing habit (friends, family, and Kofenya among all Caffeine places).

      ––––––––

      Thanks to extremely talented artist friend Shreyas Vernekar for wonderful cover. Follow him on Instagram: shreyasver.5

      Chapter 1: The Newspaper

      O' doctor's mother.

      Lata wondered how it would sound if someone were to call her that. The thought had been spinning around in her head ever since she had read that advertisement on the back of a big building, opposite to the bus station, and then in the newspaper. It was because of the advertisement that she took out two rupees for the first time in her life to buy a newspaper.

      The book vendor stared at her. He had never seen a rural lady in her thirties with a veil asking for a newspaper. He told her that, if she could wait for another ten minutes, she would get the evening daily, but she only wanted that exact Hindi newspaper.

      ***

      Lata stepped into the bedroom after doing a post-dinner cleaning. Her husband, Ramesh, smiled at her. Since she had returned in the evening from the neighboring city where she had gone to mourn an elderly lady, instead of being tired from the event and bus ride, she had been unexpectedly energetic.

      She had sat with Bannu for some time, talking to him about his studies and played with Bhavani and Kishore, their younger

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