End of the Affair

"The sledgehammer’s blow came, however, when she told him that she no longer wanted anything from him. He had felt used and discarded. He told her so, which made her even more hostile. That is when she went to her chest of drawers and started throwing out all his earlier gifts—the Q Mobile Quintex T-30, the T Mobile Spectron Q 50, the gold locket with the heart-shaped pendant that clicked open to reveal their photographs, taken at Shahzad Decent Foto Studio in Moon Market, several CDs of the jhankar and disco versions of their favourite romantic songs, the alarm clock which accurately played the azan to announce the time of the five prayers and spoke the names of famous saints every half-hour."

From "Snuffing Out the Moon" - #SnuffingOuttheMoonSnuffing out the Moon