Short Story: Greed and Ingratitude-A Novel Take on the Perennial Stretch of Human Desire by Reeti Jamil

In this short story, Reeti Jamil narrates an enticing story about the way greed and ingratitude can change our perspective to life.

            On one morning expedition to the suburbs, the voracious monster unhappily walks towards a fountain. Under the russet maple tree, dappled sunbeams flash across the water of the fountain. As she nears, she sees the mild rippling and dryly observes, “Utterly tasteless, colorless water”. Dissatisfied, she walks away.  

            With renewed spirits, as she walks a mile further into a residential neighborhood, she comes across a kitchen. Its open window shows a cauldron with simmering nourishments and no man or woman about. She peeks in further. Not only is there a cauldron but pleasure with intoxicating sight and smell. A pie- probably a blueberry pie- lies there large, untouched, bare, and chaste. It is a small house, and she conjectures hardly more than two people could live in there. She decides she will decimate the pie a little so that the other two can have enough portions to satisfy themselves. Then, she looks for an entrance and sure enough, there is one- the window itself. It is closer to the pie, and she can safely and quickly reach it. Her hands have splayed across the pie and dived into it. The contents spew outwards, the berries release an aroma that causes her to heave an orgasm. She relishes it momentarily and thanks the maker (except not in person).