My acquaintance with Lasya Shashimohan’s works began with reading her beautiful poems on Muse India – Your Space. Her insightful, intuitive and intelligent writing style has always fascinated me...
 
‘The Search and Other Stories’ is my first exposure to Lasya’s prose style. Her story telling style has the same easy and flowing quality as her poems. That she is a master of wordplay is amply demonstrated in her poems and the same comes out beautifully in her short stories too. Sample this in ‘The Find’ (Sequel to ‘The Search’): 

Hollow.
Devoid of truth or validity.
Neither fish nor fowl.
Vacant.
Nothingness after so many years of search
and a mirage of a find.