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    7 Days To Live
    7 Days To Live
    7 Days To Live
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    7 Days To Live

    By D. R. Downer

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    What if one day you get a letter in the mail and the happy life you have had so far is threatened, and you fear that life as you know it will no longer exist? You know your life is screwed up, but there is nothing you can do about it. 

    Would you like to know the exact date when you would die?

    Would you be able to live your life after that- even for a minute- without counting the days, hours, and the minutes of the impending doom? Peter got one such letter. It said that he had 'Seven Days To Live'. Read on to find out how many times he died in those seven days. 

    Did he emerge as the winner? Or did fate win, and he ended up dead on the seventh day, just as predicted?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. R. Downer
    Release dateMar 9, 2019
    ISBN9781386993773
    7 Days To Live
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    D. R. Downer

    I started my professional journey as an Executive in the sales department of a UK based organization, selling timeshare. Since then I changed over and handled many different roles and responsibilities in the Marketing, Sales & Customer Service departments across industries. I finally shifted over to Advertising and spent a good 11 years in the same. It was during the later years of my career that I started to feel suffocated, doing the same sh**, day in and day out. I started to feel as if I was meant to do something more in life, and it was this feeling that forced me to call it quits and resign from my then position of Vice President of a multinational Advertising firm.  I finally had my calling in writing. I took out my laptop and simply started to punch the keys on a blank word processor page. Since then, my laptop has been my closest friend, the one I spend most of my time with. In fact, sometimes I wonder if my wife can sue me for cheating on her...with my laptop. No seriously, can she? 

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      7 Days To Live - D. R. Downer

      PETER, WHERE WERE YOU all these days, kid? You said three weeks, and you're coming back after 2 months now. You didn't forget all about your Arnaaz aunty now, did you? the octogenarian, Mrs. Naoroji asked, opening the front door of her flat as soon as she heard Peter’s footsteps in the corridor.

      Sometimes, it helped to be staying alone in one of the only two flats on the floor. You knew who came in or went out, and when.

      Two envelopes came for you in courier. Wait here, I'll fetch them, she said, starting to go back in before suddenly turning back to him, as if on an afterthought, Oh, and didn't you tell the newspaper vendor not to put the paper daily? How many times did I....

      Aunty, aunty...courier, Peter said, cutting short her verbal onslaught.

      Oh yes! Wait, I’ll just get them, she finally went in and got the two envelopes.

      Peter took them and went over to his flat, after quickly thanking her. As he pushed the door in after opening the locks, he felt something hindering it. He somehow peeped in from the little opening he could manage and found all those newspapers slid in from below the door and a load of envelopes dropped in from the mail slot. Force-pushing the door, he got in and started to pick the stuff up after keeping his bags on the table. The trolley - complete with the Airlines luggage tags - had already been kept against the chair. He kept the newspapers in the rack and sat down on the sofa, scanning the mails. Deciding that none of them required his immediate response, he tossed them on the table too and went to the mini-bar to fix himself a drink.

      Fifteen minutes later, Peter was sitting on the lounger all washed up and clean. The stiff scotch-on-the-rocks stood on the side table; as did the latest iPhone he had bought from the US, besides an Airtel SIM card. He picked up the phone, took out the MATRIX international SIM he had been using for the last month and a half, and inserted the Airtel with his local number in.

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