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    The Ultimate Sculpture & Other Stories
    The Ultimate Sculpture & Other Stories
    The Ultimate Sculpture & Other Stories
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    The Ultimate Sculpture & Other Stories

    By Raja Sharma

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    He was driving his Jaguar through the woods near his house when he heard a cry for help. He stopped the car and found a beautiful young woman running towards him. She was very scared and she could hardly speak. She fainted in his arms. He brought her home and nursed her. After a few minutes of wait, she came back to senses.

    Her name was Miranda, a woman who could surpass the beauty and grace of even the heavenly fairies. She was around thirty three, a well balanced physique. Her long black straight hair reached up to her hips. She had blue eyes and pinkish white complexion. He wanted to touch her forehead to see whether she was running fever but he stopped, for he was afraid that the touch of his hand would leave its dirty mark on her marble skin.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateJul 11, 2012
    ISBN9781476172941
    The Ultimate Sculpture & Other Stories
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      The Ultimate Sculpture & Other Stories - Raja Sharma

      The Ultimate Sculpture & Other Stories

      Raja Sharma

      Copyright@2012 Raja Sharma

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      Chapter One: The Ultimate Sculpture

      The palace like bungalow, the lavish lush green garden with blooming flowers, fully furnished luxurious room, and big paintings hanging on the walls of every room in that big house had become past and he had almost forgotten them.

      How happy he was in those days! He was in love with a fairy like woman. She had suddenly appeared in his life as if from nowhere. He was driving his Jaguar through the woods near his house when he heard a cry for help. He stopped the car and found a beautiful young woman running towards him. She was very scared and she could hardly speak. She fainted in his arms. He brought her home and nursed her. After a few minutes of wait, she came back to senses.

      Her name was Miranda, a woman who could surpass the beauty and grace of even the heavenly fairies. She was around thirty three, a well balanced physique. Her long black straight hair reached up to her hips. She had blue eyes and pinkish white complexion. He wanted to touch her forehead to see whether she was running fever but he stopped, for he was afraid that the touch of his hand would leave its dirty mark on her marble skin.

      She did not talk much but she said that she liked that place. She began to praise the paintings made by him. He showed her all the paintings and sculptures which he had made over the years. Since he was a very rich man, the son of an industrialist and after the death of his father he had inherited a large estate, he never sold his paintings and sculptures. She was amazed to see the idols in various rooms of the big house.

      The artist had as if transfixed life in those figures and they could speak and come to life on his command. He was an exceptionally talented artist and he was totally devoted to his art.

      After the arrival of that woman in his life, the artist got transformed into a lover. To his good fortune, the woman did not remember anything from her past life. She said that she had fainted and when she opened her eyes she was in a jungle. She said someone had hit her on her head. He did not want to spoil the things by asking more about her or to try to make her remember her past, for he knew he had to be selfish if he wanted to win her love.

      In a few days, Miranda fell in love with him. She began to spend most of her time with him. He would paint for hours or carve sculptures out of stone or wood and she would be sitting, mesmerized by the forms taking shapes in front of her eyes. She loved him, she really loved him. The artist was happy as if he had got his inspiration, the poet’s blue flower, the imagery Novella’s flower, or as if a mirage that had come true. He did not want to come out of that sensation which he felt in her company.

      Two years passed and the artist went out of his house only once, and that too to see a friend who was very sick. Since there were many servants in the house, he did not need to do any work. He simply ordered and they followed his commands.

      One morning, when he opened his eyes, and when he stretched his right arm to his right to feel the body of Miranda next to him in the bed, he was shocked because the hand did not touch human body. She was not there. She had simply disappeared.

      He ran out like a madman but he did not find her. He sent his servants in all directions in the jungle surrounding his big house but

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