The Weather Cock and the Temptress

The Weather Cock and the Temptress PDF

Contents:
The Weather Cock and the Temptress
Fancy Lane
Dangerous Curves
The Lives and Styles of Mr. Mishra
Ritah Lives
Strangers in The Night
Cinderella’s Stepsister
The Obtuse Triangle
Thank God It’s Not Saturday
Jodhpur and Early Genealogical Signposts

The anthology that I have is an assortment of narrations of the people I met and fancied under the title “Weather Cock and the Temptress” and other stories. They are eight in number and about 22000 words in all. They talk of forceful human value and curiosity. It discusses characters but avoids inferences on their moral fiber.

"Weather Cock and the Temptress" is about a roving playboy who meet a temptress, who had been involved in financial and sex scandals along with her business magnet husband. After she seduces him and his encounter with some sort of parenthood he inexplicably converts and proposes to the date he never liked. My character, Mr. Mishra, leads two life styles whose chance business meets me in Calcutta leads to my first order by mild blackmail.

Katharine Pearson, my first date, is "Dangerous Curves". And Fenuda who has a rendezvous in a French lady in a train can there after never considers other lover to be of his acknowledged and class. "Cinderella’s Stepsister" talks about a neurotic and selfish woman.

"Ritah Lives" is about a woman who discovers her sexuality after being widowed. "Fancy Lane" talks about an exotic young beauty disciplined by parents who arrange her marriage with the same boy as she had fancied after her stirring chance meeting with him. "The Obtuse Triangle" leans outward to forge a made-up relationship into an actuality. The stories have an evocative Calcutta landscape and flavor.