Little Black Book

Now, this one is a proper, proper short, really short story. Now for you fancy shmancy pants, there is the mobi version for your kindle HERE and for the smart phone people, the epub version is HERE . For people who still prefer reading stuff on paper but are slowly moving towards reading things on their laptops/desktops(? Do people still use that? At home.), you can download the pdf file HERE . Initially I had planned on copy pasting the story in the blog below this opening lines thingy, but the text boxes weren't showing up on the blog so had to ditch it. Like the name of the story suggests, a murder takes place, in a bathroom.  

Plot Summary: Flight 3G 742 is bound to Raipur from Delhi. The plane crashes under unusual circumstances. 7 survive. An elephant poacher, a healthy French lesbian, a Bengali businessman, a small town man, a Malayali IT guy, an old man and a Punjabi south Delhi housewife. But people start dying. One of the seven is a cold blooded killer.  * Prologue* ‘ Flight 3G 742 is ready for departure ’, the sweet mellifluous voice floated and bounced off the near empty airport walls of the new terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International airport. Mohit turned the corner of the page and closed the book he was reading, ‘Al.An: The Origins’ and shoved it into his backpack, as he stared at the Punjabi family of four rush towards Gate – 57 to stake claim at the head of the queue. ‘Idiots!’ he thought, as he took out his boarding pass from his shirt pocket to double check if this was really the flight he was supposed to board. He mentally noted his seat number, 15C. ‘No bags for ch...