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Tuesday

Short Story: The Evil You Do


The Evil You Do Remains With You:

        A woman baked chapatti for members of 
her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapatti on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. 


Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” This went on, day after day.



          Every day, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and uttered the words: “The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!”



 The woman felt irritated. “Not a word of gratitude,” she said to herself…