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E186 - Rohini Sunderam, Your Birth, My Death (short story)

Joanna Vandervlugt Episode 186

E186 - I had the pleasure of reading Rohini Sunderam's moving short story, Your Birth, My Death. (Warning, suicide is mentioned in this short story).

Rohini Sunderam, a Canadian of Indian origin, calls four places home: New Delhi, India, Halifax, NS, Bahrain, and now Port Coquitlam BC. She is a semi-retired advertising copywriter who has published four books: Corpoetry, a collection of light-hearted poems, a romantic story Desert Flower under the pen name Zohra Saeed, a novella: Five Lives One Day in Bahrain, (all previously published by Ex-L-Ence Publishing) and Twelve Roses for Love, a collection of short stories.

Her poems have appeared in Dilliwali (Publisher Busra Alvi Razzak), Quesadilla & Other Adventures (2019), The Society of Classical Poets’ Journals VII, VIII & XII. A short story was shortlisted in The Atlantis Short Story Contest (2013) published by Expanded Horizons, (2018). A CNF entry and Flash Fiction story were long listed in separate WOW Women on Writing contests, Winner: Oapschat, U.K 2014. Her latest success is a short story published by The Missouri Review Fall 2022 issue.

Rohini Sunderam