An Un-embraced Victory

The smell of burnt blood and flesh made me cough. I cleared my throat. I knew that I had little time until the next swarm of the carnivores come in. I rechecked the battery; it was good enough for the kill. I inwardly laughed at the speculation that earth favored stupider species-a speculation born out of judging the survival of bacteria. But here I was with the superior weapons massacring the blood suckers. And I was an expert in handling the newer range of electronic killer machines. The government as always drugged the communal water, a haven of these carnivores, but to no effect-neither preventive nor direct. We are on our own, each for his family.





Briefly in a leading News daily

Hyderabad: Increasing swamps and slums made the citizens turn to new mosquito killers. Chinese made electric mosquito bats are selling heavily. Some site that the increase in prices of mosquito repellants is one reason for the change.