Mrs. D'Souza's Dispute With God: A Short Story

By Anitha Krishnan

Two things were annoying Mrs. D'Souza. One, the fact that she was dead. And second, the line of dead folks waiting to meet their Maker was insufferably long and impossibly docile.

 

Restless and teeming with questions, she decides to take matters in her own hands and sets out to find God. Not a big deal, really.

 

Except for one small thing. How do you seek someone when you don't even know what they look like?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dream Pedlar Books
• Release date: Jun 6, 2024
• ISBN: 9781738815876

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Mrs. D’Souza’s Dispute with God

MRS. D’SOUZA’S DISPUTE WITH GOD

A SHORT STORY

ANITHA KRISHNAN

DREAM PEDLAR BOOKS

Copyright © 2024 by Anitha Krishnan

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental.

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-7388158-7-6

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-7388158-8-3

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For Kala Maami & Sekhar Chitappa,

you paved the path to paradise.

The Gods are lucky to have you in their midst.

For Abhinav,

you transform our lives into paradise.

For Dhruv,

you are paradise itself.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Mrs. D’Souza’s Dispute with God

Two things were annoying Mrs. D’Souza. One, the fact that she was dead. And second, the line of dead folks waiting to meet their Maker was insufferably long and impossibly docile.

Restless and teeming with questions, she decides to take matters in her own hands and sets out to find God. Not a big deal, really.

Except for one small thing. How do you seek someone when you don’t even know what they look like?

CONTENTS

1. Death

2. Denial

3. Despair

4. Deliverance

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DEATH

Mrs. D’Souza was not at all happy about the fact that she had just died.

She had only been going about her usual grocery run, making her way back home on her trusty TVS Scooty, bags of groceries neatly wedged between her feet on the platform, when one of those BMW sedans with tinted windows burst out of nowhere and careened into her sideways, dragging her, her trusted mount, and her bags of carefully chosen groceries for quite a distance.

Of course, it then sped away without a moment’s hesitation, which is why the driver didn’t notice how the pallu end of Mrs. D’Souza’s new cotton saree, a light pink and floral affair for the end of summer, had caught on one of the BMW’s wheels and had dragged her along, disrobing her alongside killing her.

At a safe distance away from the scene of the incident, the driver stopped, ripped