Janet Mason (Photo Provided) Read the enticing conversation that bill berry had with Janet Mason earlier this month:  aaduna.org/conversations/   Enjoy Janet Mason’s fiction, “The Mother,” in aaduna’s summer/fall 2015 issue: http://aaduna.org/summerfall2015/fiction/janet-mason/      *   *   * aaduna - a timeless exploration into words and images - is a globally read, multi-cultural, and diverse online literary and visual arts journal established in 2010.  Visit us at www.aaduna.org  where we put measurable actions to our words. Help us build community!  Share with your friends,  "like" our Aaduna-Inc facebook page and follow us on twitter @ aadunaspeaks !  aaduna-Inc  Visit regularly for updates ! @aadunaspeaks  

Delve into an atmosphere of deceit, silence, acceptance, and transformation in Sarah Khan’s story, “A Knotted Piece of Rope” in aaduna’s spring 2015 anniversary issue. Ms. Khan weaves a story that is timely and full of denial, mis-understanding, abuse, and love. Here is a short excerpt:   I was always hyper sensitive to my father’s approaching footsteps, all the time wondering what it was this time that I did wrong and how he managed to get it done right. My mother, a teacher in a government school was a hand to mouth sort of person who seemed to live under the family’s same roof like some deaf or dumb entity. How could she be so insensitive? I wondered that whenever I looked at her busying herself in the kitchen cooking dinner while father rampaged throughout the house like an angry ox, looking for some misplaced possession of his. She seemed to have sewn her lips together whenever father bellowed at her over silly pointless things. With me standing in a corner watching...

Most stories find closure with these two words, “the end.”  However, with sequels, prequels, and new plots and scenarios for characters, “the end” may just be the beginning.   Find out. Read storyteller Kenneth Gary’s Conversation now available at http://aaduna.org/conversations/