The Fire Ant’s Sting: Desire Diaries

About The Book

The road to perdition is paved with desires An expat couple resort to illicit means to hoard wealth. A small- town author yearns for fame and laurels at the risk of alienating his family.A widowed woman is desperate to preserve her youthful looks and turn the clock back. An eager-to-please, do-gooder mother seeks respect and reciprocation of her efforts.The common thread weaving through these stories is a pulsating and addictive desire to attain what one craves for at any cost. In Fire-Ant’s Sting: Desire Diaries, Kamalini Natesan explores, through twelve varied characters, the different facets of desire—a primal human emotion—and how its pursuit blinds one to reason. Alternately wry and full of pathos, daring and evocative, this is a delectable diary of desires that will leave you asking for more.

About Kamalini Natesan

Kamalini Natesan is a language teacher, polyglot, trained classical Indian vocalist, and a writer exploring the facets of desire in this brave new world. Author of Naked Beneath the Midnight Sun (Olympia, UK), she wrestles with life’s biggest emotions through short stories and poetry, found in numerous online publications such as Cafê Dissensus, Oddball Magazine,The Bangalore Review, etc. Her website: https://kamaliniwrites.com – houses all her writings. She currently resides in Bangkok with her husband, where she continues to photograph and document the world around her. Thai is her eighth language, and this is her second book.