Humourous Middles

Humorous Middles is a fine collection of humorous middles published in major newspapers and magazines. What is it that makes the middle stand apart? The middle is a short composition hardly ever more than 600 to 800 words. It draws strength from its in-built humour that skips and romps with the deftness of a mountain goat. It thus turns into a sort of mirror at times concave at times convex (never does it remain a plain mirror) and manages to see what lies behind the even contours that people events or encounters present. The 120 odd middles compiled in this book were written over a period of about 40 years. They have enough power to evoke laughter at every turn. All of them are distinctly individualistic and are powered by what one may say the ability to tickle the funny bone. #v&spublishers Contents: Preface 1. Better Half and Bitter Half . . 5. Surprise gift . . 10. Don’t ask for the moon . . 15. Neurotic over a stapler . . 20. Waterloo . . 25. I pick pockets . . 30. A form of inspiration . . 35. Dictator’s delight . . 40. Travel trouble . . 45. Tongue-twister . . 50. A haunting mystery . . 55. On windows . . 60. On eyebrows . . 65. Caught on the wrong foot . . 70. The automatic watch . . 75. Second fiddle . . 80. Water on the rocks! . . 85. For friendship’s sake 86. Right logic