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RE: ADSactly Short Story - The Buying is Never Easy
Hahaha. Great story, @churchboy. Well developed characters, plot and setting. Suspense well kept to very end.
Interesting use of symbolic elements. The corners and the idea of being cornered. The sense of claustrophobia, magnified at the drugstore. The descriotuon of Aham's condition made me remember Sherman Alexie's True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Junior, the main character and narrator was born with hydrocephalus.
Buying condoms has never been embarrassment-free, even when we grow older, let alone for teenagers, let alone a bullied one.
Some lessons to learn here about trust, self-confidence and social conventions.
Necesity is the mother of invention, they say.
Thank you @hlezama for such wonderful comment and analogy. It is so good to find someone who not only read but could relate to the story. Yes, Aham learned that sometimes, those things that worry you can be skipped right over and only then would you realize that they were nothing to begin with.
You are appreciated.
Thank you very much. Likewise. It was a very good story, one any adolescent would feel empowered by.