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As a Creative Writer I Contributed a series of Short Stories to Daily News, a leading National News Paper in Sri Lanka. The Short Story of Dying Jason, about an avenging dead soldier who kept returning to the battle field was particularly well received by the public.
The editors of Daily News appreciated my writing style, creativity and the carefully thought out story line. They encouraged me to produce more, addressing a wider readership. I obliged, and my stories continued to appear in the Creative Writing Column on a regular basis.
Campus Platoon is such another attention-winning Short Story in the series. Action packed, it is about a Second Year University Student who infiltrates a junior batch in the same faculty in order to understand unseen social issues among new arrivals.
Senior Student turned Insider, Chethi Senadheera bumps against something more serious than he originally expected within a junior batch; military intelligence. Plot thickens as spy meets spy and Campus Platoon steps in.
With a more refined approach to Creative Writing, I wrote My Sweetheart, effectively utilizing the literary instrument of Personification. Written in figurative language, it compares the Western European country of Germany to a violent girl with blood on her hands, and the story begins with an introduction to the deadliest conflict in human history: World War II.
The countless atrocities committed by Nazis capture the interest of a present day history student who starts to pursue the origins of the mass scale genocide of Holocaust. He starts to unearth facts about Germany to an extent that he develops an emotional attachment to the Fatherland. The feeling is reinforced when he stumbles upon Deutsche Welle, the International Radio and TV Broadcaster of Germany.
In fact, the whole idea is based on my own real life experience. At the time I authored My Sweetheart I myself was listening to Short Wave Radio Broadcasts from Germany and providing them my feedback in the form of reception reports. It became my favorite hobby and also succeeded in finding its way in to my writings as well.
My most recent short story is "A Tall Guy with Three Holsters" which was shortlisted for the Trilogy Award in Needle-in-the-Hay Short Story Competitions.
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