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The Broken Kaleidoscope
The Broken Kaleidoscope includes standalone short stories and novellas that are also available for purchase separately.
Book One: Bitter-Sweet Love Stories
# 1: Starry Night
A young woman fights an uphill battle with depression; a husband reflects on the choices he made and on the road ahead. A story of two disparate lives destined to be intertwined but briefly.
# 2: The Dance of Life
Haunted by memories, a young woman finds it hard to let go of the only man she has ever loved. A story about childhood sweethearts and a bond that not even death could break.
Book Two: A Short Social Drama
# 3: The Flower of Pain
Swarali, an idealistic college student, meets and befriends Ila, a young transgender woman. Their budding friendship forces her to examine her own values and that of society at large. Tragedy befalls when Ila’s growing visibility is perceived as a threat to established norms—Ila finds herself embroiled in a salacious scandal, and she and Swarali must do all that they can to fight back against an unjust and uncaring system. A story of a loving friendship in a world filled with bigotry and hate.
Book Three: A Psychological Horror Novella
# 4: The Red Creeper
Kunal Singhania is your typical guy; young, educated, hard-working, and newly engaged. But his picture-perfect life is turned upside down when he moves into his new suburban home, and almost immediately begins displaying symptoms of a mental breakdown. Hallucinations, disembodied voices and missing chunks of time. They all point to a psychological disorder, induced, the doctors say, by stress. As the psychotic ‘episodes’ continue, Kunal can’t help but wonder if there is more than meets the eye.
After all, there are the whispers. Whispers of a haunted house. Whispers of a murky past. Whispers of ghosts and demons. Urban legend turns urban fact as the loving home slowly reveals itself to be a house of horrors. Kunal’s fiancée and friends can only watch as the line between his ‘real’ and ‘fictional’ worlds begins to blur and bleed into all aspects of his life. A horrific tragedy leads to strange and alarming new discoveries.
A disturbingly realistic tale of psychological suspense and paranormal activity which will make you question the very nature of reality, and whether you can trust yourself to know the ‘real’ from the ‘unreal’.
Book Four: A Romantic Crime Novella
# 5: The Green Room
It’s been a year since Kavya’s relationship ended in spectacular failure. Stuck in a rut, she is understandably ecstatic when she lands a promising job in a big, bustling city. But the city and the job hold surprises of their own—a married neighbour with a black cat and a propensity to be in the wrong place at the wrong time; an ex-boyfriend who, not only works in the same office but, is alternatively distant and interested; and a mysterious night caller who wants Kavya and will go to any lengths to have her.
All alone in a new city, Kavya must find a way to escape her stalker. But for that, she needs allies. Can she trust her ex? Her neighbours? Her colleagues?
A dangerous cocktail of jealousy, anger, passion, and obsession, ‘The Green Room’ is a twisted tale of love.