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    A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 3: A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 3, #12
    A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 3: A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 3, #12
    A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 3: A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 3, #12
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    A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 3: A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 3, #12

    By Cyril Sumagaysay

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    This book contains a variety of fictional incidences that could possibly happen in a certain place in a certain time on this planet. It provides not only entertainment but a profound understanding of life, universe and the mysteries in some dark regions only plausible in our imagination. It may talk about some strange objects, strange people, strange places and extremely rare events.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCyril Sumagaysay
    Release dateJan 17, 2021
    ISBN9781393324751
    A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 3: A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 3, #12
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    Cyril Sumagaysay

    I am a musician by profession but I love to write novels, short stories, topics on cosmology, aircraft design and I'm also a sculptor and painter. 

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      A Collection of Short Stories - Cyril Sumagaysay

      A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 3

      A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 3, Volume 12

      Cyril Sumagaysay

      Published by Cyril Sumagaysay, 2021.

      This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

      A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES: VOLUME 3

      First edition. January 17, 2021.

      Copyright © 2021 Cyril Sumagaysay.

      ISBN: 978-1393324751

      Written by Cyril Sumagaysay.

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      Applied Cosmology

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      Watch for more at Cyril Sumagaysay’s site.

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright Page

      Also By Cyril Sumagaysay

      Dedication

      A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 3

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      Also By Cyril Sumagaysay

      About the Author

      About the Publisher

      This book is for my friends who still find it a pleasure to read. Nothing can replace the pleasure of reading. Entertainment technology makes exponential leaps in every decade. But there are thoughts and emotions that can only be communicated through reading and can never be communicated through movies. Some people even read the books from where these movies were taken. Who knows? Some of these stories will be made into movies one day.

      Tiruchirappalli Coin

      It was Brihannala’s last day of delivering various items from Ramil’s Store. It would also be his last day as a delivery boy. Brihan was now nineteen years old and he had to start his own business no matter how small. His savings wasn’t much but it provided him a cart and sumptuous amount to start his life as a street vendor selling bread and drinks, usually tea mixed with ginger. Brihan’s life was sad. He was born in Sri Lanka and became an orphan. But both his parents were native to Tiruchirappalli. Stricken with poverty they left for the southernmost part of Sri Lanka. Life went from bad to worst. His father died. His mother went back to Tiruchirappalli to give away his son. His mother left him on the door step of Mario Miguel, a cook of an Englishman Arthur Hesbon. His mother, Elisa left a letter concerning the reason of her abandonment. The Englishman took him in and considered him his son. So he was named Brihannala Hesbon. He recalled.

      I’m your father now.

      Father Art, I’m not even an Englishman. How can that be? Brihannala asked.

      Relationships are beyond the blood line. In fact, I’m proud to be your father. I see meekness in you. I hope you stay that way. And you will not look for your destiny. Your destiny will find you. Arthur replied.

      He told himself that he had no problem with rent so what he makes for a day would be enough for him including some poor people who ask for alms. All was well with Brihan’s life. He had simple pleasures every Monday. For Monday was his free day to roam the city, picking up things on the road, screws, nuts, bolts, coins, even a piece of jewelry. He had been collecting coins since he was ten years old for the Englishman was himself a collector. But Brihan quitted sometime when he was fifteen when he realized this was a rich man’s leisure. Paul Zimmerman himself had gotten into such fever or frenzy that a week after Arthur’s burial, he visited Brihan asking him about a coin. And Paul himself did the chores of cleaning the house. Brihan still had his collections which were just few, eighty-eight pieces of coins.

      And when it was rainy day on a Monday and he couldn’t do much at the streets, he simply stayed at home enjoying his old coins. And at one time, he found a letter that belonged to Arthur Hesbon, he didn’t open it. But this time, thinking that he was already dead, he

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