Excerpt from Remaindered People & Other Stories by Pratap Reddy
“Wake up, Seenu. You must go to work today."
He heard Narsamma speak as if from a far away world. He moved his limbs and opened his eyes. Seenu felt so weak he wanted to sink back into sleep.
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If I swallow hard, the synthetic punch of his body wash is still in the back of my throat. My skin still puckers into gooseflesh. The heat of the shower is behind the closed door but I can feel how it ribboned out to meet me.
And I can still see everything, all at once.