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1 Mist i "I saw you walking in the mist", Hadassah Pomeroy , 2012 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Mozzie , January-February vol. 20 no. 1 2012; (p. 10)
1 Cry Beloved Cry Hadassah Pomeroy , 2011 single work short story
— Appears in: Tamba , Spring - Summer no. 49 2011; (p. 18-21)

Dr Sudharkar Rao is a successful and wealthy specialist in leprosy. After 25 years of working as a physician, he has returned to Darjeeling, India, where he was first assigned to the Leprosy Mission. He is brought a patient beyond help or recognition.

Unknown to him, the patient is Jyotafna, a woman who had been his lover for the five years he worked for the Leprosy Mission in Darjeeling. He realises this fact that night and races back from a Rao family party, just in time for Jyotafna to pass away.

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