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Ash and Amaranth | A Short Story ✓ by GildedLotusInk
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A three shot story. Seven years ago, Aryan disappeared without a word - and Maahi spent every one of them since learning how to stop waiting. Now he's on her table, barely breathing, and every quiet thing about him tells her he never really left at all. She saved strangers for a living. She never thought she would have to save him - or the love she thought she had buried with him. word count : 8k words source inspiration : Bharat and Mandavi from Ramayana.
Protector's Turn | A Short Story  ✓ by GildedLotusInk
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A three shot story. Vishnu. Sesha. Ram. Lakshman. Krishna. Balarama. This era - Prithvi and Arul. Arul has always been the one who arrives before the worst thing does - in every yuga, every story, every version of them. This time, he's the one on the rope, hundreds of feet down, listening to his brother's voice go thin over a dying comms line - and for the first time across ages, the protector is the one who might not make it in time. Prithvi has always been the strength Arul leaned on when death came close. He has never had to be that strength while dying himself. Now every word he says has to hold his brother up, even as the water is the only thing holding him. word count : 8k words
Run on Water | A Short Story  ✓ by GildedLotusInk
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A three shot story. She learned to survive anything. He is quietly finishing everything - so he can stop. Three tasks stand between Dev and an ending only he knows about. Myra has stood beside him through every loss that came before, unclaimed, unspoken, the one steady thing he never thought to call love. Now the list is almost done. And she is the one thing he never counted. Run on Water - a story about the love we survive on without ever naming, and the last, unlisted reason to stay. word count : 8K words source inspiration : Lakshman and Urmila from Ramayana.
Apricity Finally  | Ambys2026 ✓ by GildedLotusInk
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Aisha is everything Rudra has spent his life learning to distrust - loud, unbothered, allergic to rules he's built his whole identity around. He is everything she's learned to resent - controlled, cold, the kind of certainty that once cost her everything. Neither is who the other assumes. A story where the disguise isn't a secret identity - it's just how badly people can misread pain that doesn't look like their own. word count : 16K words