Red Neanderthals - A book of stories

By Jimmy Mathew

About the book:

Red Neanderthals is a book of stories. What happens when a group of ice age humans encounter a group of Neanderthals in the wilds of North Asia thirty thousand years ago? Can we rise above our animal instincts or are we doomed? Why can’t a beggar get into a newly consecrated church at Kochi? What or who is he? How did Modern Medicine lose, and who is the indispensible guy? Answers to these and much more, are in this collection of amazingly perceptive stories. They are a window into the human condition.
About the author:

Jimmy Mathew is a medical doctor from Kochi, kerala. He is a writer and science communicator who blogs at healthylifehappylife.in.
He has written four books and his blog is read and followed widely.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pencil
• Release date: Apr 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9789354388989

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Red Neanderthals - A book of stories

BY

Jimmy Mathew

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ISBN 9789354388989

© Jimmy Mathew 2021

Published in India 2021 by Pencil

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DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. The opinions expressed in this book do not seek to reflect the views of the Publisher.

Author biography

Jimmy Mathew is a medical doctor from Kochi, kerala. He is a writer and science communicator who blogs at healthylifehappylife.in.

He has written four books and his blog is read and followed widely.

Contents

Miss Liji and me.

No country for old sperms.

Red Neanderthals and a world in blue.

The story of the sour grapes.

The Battle of Ramprasad- and how Modern Medicine lost.

The Edifice

The Indispensible Guy.

Introduction

This is a book of 

Miss Liji and me.

Can I come with you? She asked. I looked at her with irritation. It was clear that she was interested in me. Middly- what a name! Like Iddly.

I actually liked Middly. She was kind of cute. But her hair was curly. I hated that. Why do girls have pimples, by the way? They left those unsightly pitted marks that took a lot away from the perfection of a face. And then, there was her small but flatter nose. Those made her look like a Chinese. I have nothing against the Chinese, but as a facial feature, is that good? I don’t know.

I squeezed one of my pimples. It was mildly painful, like a distant memory. I stewed in the cocoon of my adolescence, longing to shake the fluid out of my wings and soar into the clear sky of the real world. I had a mission. I could see the problems with the world. I had to make it better. For me and for everybody else. A fault-free, blemish-less universe lay before me in my young dreams.    

The future- what would it be like? I wondered eagerly.

I shook my head and walked away, as her smile drooped a bit, like a tired hibiscus.

The path was tree lined and gloomy in the approaching dusk. As I turned the corner, I stood, stunned. I gaped.

A gap in the canopy let in a slice of bright light onto the sidewalk that illuminated clearly, a woman standing in my way. An absolutely gorgeous woman.

She was erect, like she was balancing a pot of water on her head. She was the most perfectly