Marigold Stories

The stories of this collection are about simple yet unusual women. The characters include one very passionate middle-aged teacher of English literature suddenly in love, one widowed school teacher experiencing an unexpectedtransformation of her routine, long journeys from work to home into remarkable moments of self-discovery, one middle-aged wifeand mother reliving her glory as a sportsperson in a sudden fit of passion, one vintage, closet enchantress using her magic in a clandestine manner for empowerment in violent situations, one lady detective trying to solve a surreal murder of a young girl child, one wife trying to understand the eccentricities of her recently deceased storyteller husband through narrating their marital experiences, one introverted young woman being haunted since her childhood by the spirit of her unnaturally deceased friend, and finally one anthropomorphized spider revealingvarious shades of her life and personality in moments of extremeexistential angst.These stories are light-hearted but should appeal to the sensibilities of any reader who is interested to read literature with some amount of attention.