Two Versions of the Truth is a collection of 14 stories, each told by two different people giving their side of the situation.
Excerpt
In was Friday night when I decided to get a couple of drinks
after work. I’ve never been a big drinker, but that night I couldn’t
help myself. It was something about the vodka I was drinking
because it had me hooked. Then the DJ started playing some old
school hip hop and some Michael Jackson. When my song came
on, I started pop-locking like it was no tomorrow. At one point I
was engaged in a heated battle with some dude and after I destroyed him, I decided to walk home a champion. I was surprised
that I knew where I was going. I was even more surprised that I
didn’t get into a fight or get arrested because every single person
that I passed by I had some words for them.
The only thing I remembered from when I made it home was
falling on the couch. It had to be the alcohol because I was having
some weird dreams that night. The first dream, I was on a stage
performing in front of thousands of people. The only problem was I
was performing wearing only a pair of boots and some aviators.
Still, everyone was cheering and screaming at me.
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
In this eccentric tale set in a small town in northern India, Pawan Mishra masterfully weaves ingenuity and sarcasm in a manner that’s simultaneously hilarious and tragic.
