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    As I Grew Up
    As I Grew Up
    As I Grew Up
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    As I Grew Up

    By Aaditya Gajra

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    Are clouds really cotton candies? Will a plant really sprout out of your tummy if you swallow seeds? Does the tooth fairy really exist? Look like childish questions, don't they? But are they actually? Are some children really special? Are You special?


    Find out the answers to your questions in the book as the characters take you back into your childhood days. Let you find yourself dancing to a song that you hadn't heard in years. Listen to yourself humming as you wonder how quickly time passed by. How quickly your thoughts changed. How quickly you abandoned your teddy bear. How quickly you grew up.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAaditya Gajra
    Release dateAug 21, 2021
    ISBN9798201115203
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      Book preview

      As I Grew Up - Aaditya Gajra

      Aaditya Gajra

      As I Grew Up

      An Anthology of Short Stories and Poems

      Copyright © 2021 by Aaditya Gajra

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.

      Aaditya Gajra asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      This anthology is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      First edition

      Cover art by Vahini Bhaskerwar and Aaditya Gajra

      This book was professionally typeset on Reedsy

      Find out more at reedsy.com

      Dedicated to everyone who’s been a part of my life

      Contents

      Foreword

      Preface

      Acknowledgement

      1. I Can

      2. A Success Story

      3. Suspense: Albert Anastasia

      4. Mother Earth

      5. My Wish

      6. What a Mother is Like

      7. Lock-Not-So-Down

      8. What I Miss the Most About School

      9. Ticking Time

      10. Art

      11. Indian

      12. Neglect – A Pen’s Autobiography

      13. Pulwama

      14. To Be You

      15. You

      16. Fata-Morgana?

      17. Rupees to Dollars

      18. Rainbow

      19. Tryst with Truth

      20. A Pome

      21. How Krishna Got His Name

      22. Holiday

      23. Home Sweet Home

      24. Sayonara

      25. Topsy-Turvy

      26. What I Feared when I was 10 and 15

      27. Her Last Wish

      28. Question

      About the Author

      Foreword

      As I Grew Up is a compilation of short stories, poems and essay- by a very versatile young writer Aaditya Gajra. The anthology is designed for those who are on the journey of their personal discoveries, their evolution in terms of thought process, behavior, social awareness, their challenges, and their fears. This compilation is for an adult who has already gone through the journey and is able to relate to the writer as much as it is to a teenager who is going through the evolution process, to help them understand themselves and the situation better. It surely is a must have in your collection.

      Best Wishes,

      Srishti Jain

      Preface

      We all grow up. So do our thoughts. When I was a child, I always used to think that all cloud are cotton candies; one day I would climb up on them and eat to my heart’s content. Then I would carry it with my bare hands and bring them down. Let mom taste these candies, she will forget Cadbury and Alpenliebe.

      But as I grew up, I learnt that clouds aren’t cotton candies. They aren’t lightweight either. They are made up of gallons

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