With hunger pangs biting her stomach, Roopa wished if someone would give her a loud applause on her brilliant thought.
The door bell rang. She ran down the broken steps to find out who it was. Who could it be but the postman! She was irritated. He was irritated. It was a routine, but only today the postman had bought a letter not from her creditors but someone else.
She inquisitively opened the letter,"Who has remembered this dead person today?"
Tears rolled down her cheeks as she drifted her eyes across the letter.
44 Shirley Ave.
West Chicago, IL 60185
30.6.17
Dear mom,
Its been long since I heard from you. Did you buy a phone? Because it is really foolish of us living in the 21st century and writing letters. Susane and John are good here. This year too, we won't be coming. I know you'll be upset, but I've promised Susane and John a vacation, which they wont enjoy at your place mom. I've sent you some money, which you might not have got because you don't have the internet. So I've sent it to Mrs. Damini on the internet. Get it collected and got to THOMAS COOK and convert the dollars into Rupee.
Please go out and walk and chat with other ghosts, this way you won't feel alone and won't call me again and again to your place. I'll be writing once six months, I'm really busy. Do not waste the money I send on sending me letters I don't read. And yes, next summer, me Susane and John will be going to Canada to celebrate my and Susane's marraige anniversary, so do not expect us.
Please be friendly with Mrs.Damini, I often call her to talk to you, but she refuses saying that you're too rude with her. These attitudes have outdated, please mom. Try to live peacefully in the society.
I'm writing a lot beacuse I would be writing to you after 6 months. Now that the government is coming up with a new law, that middle class ghosts can meet their family only once a year, so get a new source of income. I checked your account on the net where the government was showing that you are not working well. In 8 months you scared only 1 child, that too unsuccessfully. This won't work for I can't bare your and your villa's expenses after GST. You have to earn your penny.
With that I keep my pen. I seek your blessings for me and family.
LOVE,
MANOJ, SUSANE AND JOHN.
She did not know what she was feeling. Her heart, infuriated, crying, burning.
"This is what you became in so many years Manoj? It was not my son but, Susane, the white devil incarnate wife of his. I shouldn't have had sent him to USA.
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General Fiction#highest ranking 111#It is 1st July. Narendra Modi is announcing the GST bill. Roopa is exasperated. She is desperate as it is now even more difficult to manage a living in the exotic villa where she is residing. Read ahead to know what happens next.
