Drama

Haru, seventeen, finds the tin of letters her boss never delivered in his thirty-eight years as the town postman, and decides to deliver them before he burns them.

Miyamoto Musashi claimed sixty duels and no defeats. Each chapter is told by one of the men who lost to him, from a tired traveling swordsman in 1596 to the heirs of Kyoto's greatest school.

In a walled city where every step between sectors costs hours of labor, sixteen-year-old Mina forges the hours, until she learns the brother she mourned is one of the Wardens hunting forgers.

Seoul, eight years after the Gates opened. Kang Dohyun, an F-rank porter paying his little sister's hospital bills, is left as bait in Gate Nine and dies. A system window only he can see sends him back 24 hours, every time. The gate breaks at 4:12 a.m. and the hospital is in its path. Each rewind deletes one memory of her.

Kenshin, seventeen, the last son of the Kuroda clan, trains to destroy the Akagi who burned his village, not knowing his own father started the war.

Four chickens share a coop in a wooded backyard. The coop has an internal coop section with nesting bars, and a external fenced section called the Run where the chickens play and eat food and water. The brown chicken, Nugget, is the low chicken on the pecking order and is made an outcast of by the other three chickens. The green-and-black chicken, Chickeera is the bully, constantly pecking Nugget, and preventing her from accessing food and water. She forces Nugget into the coop on her own where she sits lonely and solemn on the nesting bars. The white chicken, Mrs. Nuggy, minds her own business and follows along, but does nothing to protect Nugget. The largest chicken of them all, the grey hen named Madge, initially supports the bullying of Nugget, but in the end she befriends Nugget, stands up for her, and protects her. She brings Nugget back into the run to rejoin the flock with the rest of the chickens.

Kai, sixteen, is the deckhand on the 11:40 ferry across Kasumi Bay. Some passengers cast no shadow under the deck lamps: they are dead and don't know it yet. The captain's one rule is never tell them. Two years ago Kai told his little sister.

Valmiki, the forest hermit who made the first verse, is given the sight to see Rama's whole life, and teaches it to two boys in his hermitage who do not know it is the story of their own father.

In the Calcutta of 1920, a girl who lights the gas lamps on her street notices that one lamp goes out every night at the same house. Her father, the old lamp keeper, tells her to leave it alone. She doesn't.

एक बार माता पार्वती स्नान करने जा रही थीं। उन्होंने अपने शरीर के उबटन से एक बालक की रचना की और उसमें प्राण डाल दिए। माता पार्वती ने उस बालक से कहा, “पुत्र, जब तक मैं स्नान कर रही हूँ, तुम द्वार पर पहरा देना और किसी को अंदर मत आने देना।” बालक ने माता की आज्ञा मानकर द्वार पर पहरा देना शुरू कर दिया। कुछ समय बाद भगवान शिव वहाँ आए। उन्होंने अंदर जाने की कोशिश की, लेकिन बालक ने उन्हें रोक दिया। भगवान शिव ने कहा, “मैं पार्वती का पति हूँ, मुझे अंदर जाने दो।” लेकिन बालक ने माता की आज्ञा को सर्वोपरि मानते हुए उन्हें अंदर जाने से रोक दिया। इस बात से भगवान शिव और बालक के बीच युद्ध हो गया। क्रोध में भगवान शिव ने अपने त्रिशूल से बालक का सिर अलग कर दिया। जब माता पार्वती ने यह देखा तो वे अत्यंत क्रोधित और दुखी हो गईं। उन्होंने भगवान शिव से अपने पुत्र को पुनः जीवित करने की मांग की। तब भगवान शिव ने अपने गणों को आदेश दिया कि जो प्राणी उत्तर दिशा की ओर सिर करके मिले, उसका सिर ले आएँ। गणों को एक हाथी मिला। वे उसका सिर लेकर आए। भगवान शिव ने हाथी का सिर उस बालक के शरीर पर स्थापित किया और उसे पुनः जीवन प्रदान कर दिया। भगवान शिव ने कहा, “आज से तुम गणों के स्वामी कहलाओगे। किसी भी शुभ कार्य से पहले सबसे पहले तुम्हारी पूजा होगी।” इसीलिए भगवान गणेश को प्रथम पूज्य, विघ्नहर्ता और मंगलकर्ता कहा जाता है। 🙏🐘🌺