Book Title: The Rabbit and the Squirrel
Author: Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Number of Pages: 88
ISBN: 978-9356998711
Date Published: Mar. 6, 2025
Price: INR 411
Book Excerpt
Chapter 2
It was their hiding place; no one could see them. Here they might have been anyone but they chose to be only their own selves, broken, beautiful. Sometimes, when no one was around, they danced, and entered a secret place they called The Rapture. They shook their heads and they moved their hips, they jiggled their arms and they wiggled their rears, they hooted aloud for no one to hear, and then they flopped down in sweet, sweet exhaustion.
Sometimes they cried.
They dug a little hole and, bums in the air, they thrust their heads in the hole and howled with all hell’s rage. They wept for flowers that fell before their time. They wept for the sea, heavy with the rubbish of the living. They wept for the air, sodden with the dreams of the dead. They wept because everyone disappointed them, and because they would disappoint others. They wept because everything was
unbearably beautiful, and their time to experience any of it was dreadfully short. Like silver arrows, their tears plumbed the heart of the earth.
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