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Sellam Badu Kollo ” a short story from “Rainbows in Braille” – A collection of short stories – By Elmo Jayawardena The sunsets were magnificent; long and slow as the western sky got splashed in marmalade and vermillion. The glow in the far horizon was burnt gold where the sun’s thin red rays sprouted through low ‘mackerel shoal’ clouds like a mute symphony from heaven. The beach became copper coloured and the water’s edge a rare purple with white-foamed waves still battering the shore. Far to the right the rotating beam of the Galle lighthouse made its lazy rounds, still an infant blip against the fading last light of a day nearing its end. The sky, the sea and the beach in harmony were picture postcard perfect, an instant painting that would last awhile till the night cloaked it in darkness.         The two lay on large Poseidon Inn towels ...