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My Best Six Fictions in 2020

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Imitating the great Dickensean phrase I can say "It was the best of times" in my reading and writing year and "it was the worst of times" in the other areas of my life in 2020. I have seen the birth of the youngest successor (nephew) and the death of the eldest predecessor (grandmother) in the midst of Covid pandemic. I have experienced a great benevolence of humanity as well as a terrible cruelty. In a nutshell, I have taken some risky decisions to bring out some best solutions of my life, on that matter the best of the best tools I have used are fiction reading and creative and critical writing. My flash fiction and book reviews written in English have got published first ever in the globally circulated literary journals. This is the year full of acceptances and rejections that teach me to value the purposes and efforts of my acts and not to take the judgments for granted.   This the year I have read each Booker-shortlisted novel and written reviews on half of the