Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. - George Eliot

'Her love was entire as a child's, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.' - Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd ©All Rights Reserved Copyright©Mauli Singh 2019

'Stay with me like this without a sound, As if we're quietly together by fate. There's no more scent left at all, But I still feel it.' - Mun Seong Nam, 'This Life'

There's something I wanted to tell Hee-Ju if I ever got to meet her again. I wanted to tell her I was sick of seeing fake tears and tears filled with excuses. So the fact that she cried for me when I wasn't there and how she looked after me while I was sleeping meant so much to me. - Yoo Jin Woo, Memories of the Alhambra ©All Rights Reserved Copyright©Mauli Singh 2018

a short story that took birth when i was watching yjhd and i immediately requested my favourite couple to visualize it into words.

|| Final Draft || I have never seen the world through the rose-tinted glasses of naive innocence. My glasses are a concoction of white and black, it is grey. That is what I read. That is what I learnt. And that is how I viewed people, in shades of grey and never of white and black. Yet, there are things you never read in books, and so you never learn. And when this happens, the foundation of your very life is shaken to the point where you can only pick yourself and the scattered pieces of the glasses you have conditioned yourself to see the world through. NOTE : 1) Previously titled 'TSOU: Her Fate'. 2) All the chapters have been taken down and will remain unavailable for a while as I'm rewriting them. Sorry for the inconvenience. 3) I'm trying my best to finish rewriting the book, so hopefully, will post back all the chapters soon. 4) If you want to read the first version, please head over to my profile and find the first draft. Copyright © Mauli Singh 2019 ©All Rights Reserved

It is believed that adversity brings out the best in us and everything likewise. In the case of an army officer's family, couple the adverse situation with distance. The fortitude they show is highly commendable and incomparable. This short story is based on a young Captain and his family, which comprises of his parents, elder sister and his to-be wife. The Captain, for the duty of his nation, leaves his home to resume his duty in one of most conflict prone region. With news of the new conflicts arising in the region he's posted at, all his family and fiancée could do is pray and hope for him to come back home safely. With his family's prayers and his fiancée's love, will he come back home alive or not? Read on to know! #582 in Short Story (28-02-2016) #228 in Short Story (03-05-2016) #256 in Short Story (04-05-2016) Copyright © Mauli Singh 2016 ©All Rights Reserved

|| Final Draft || The more I try to live, the more I have to struggle. So, I gave up trying to live and chose to exist instead, because it's easier. And I think I managed to fare well...until Anaisha came back to my life like a storm I've been preparing myself to battle. The force with which she infiltrated the walls of iron I built around myself, wrecked the fortress of the facade I raised to conceal the skeletons I never wished for anyone to see -- she discovered them...and maybe, I hoped her to, as well. Yet, I had to run away, from her and those skeletons that swore to tear me down to flesh and bones. I never knew to love her, was to fight through the darkness I surrounded myself with. Perhaps, that is why she is my worst nightmare and my sweetest reverie -- I neither can stay with her, because she threatens my survival, nor can I live without her, because her absence threatens my existence. NOTE : 1) Previously titled 'TSOU: His Destiny'. 2) All the chapters have been taken down and will remain unavailable for a while as I'm rewriting them. Sorry for the inconvenience. 3) I'm trying my best to finish rewriting the book, so hopefully, will post back all the chapters soon. 4) If you want to read the first version, please head over to my profile and find the first draft. Copyright © Mauli Singh 2019 ©All Rights Reserved

'Meeting someone in life is Something that's actually astonishing. That's because he brings himself, With his past, present and future. That's because, someone's whole life comes along. The heart is fragile. Therefore, it might have been broken. That heart is coming too...' - Jeong Hyeonjong NOTE: This is a TSOUHD AU, so it's going to have characters from the book retaining their names and some characteristics, but it is in no way related to the original storyline and hence not be read as an extension of Kabir and Anaisha's story. ©All Rights Reserved Copyright©Mauli Singh 2019

Being an army officer is hard, and it's only a strong hearted and patriotic man's profession. But being an army officer's wife is even harder and emotionally draining. And it gets even harder when the husband, the army officer dies after just few years of marriage, doing his duty to the nation at the battlefield. This short story is of a young woman, who lost her husband in an army battle, with the regret of never confessing her love to him. But a letter from her husband, that he had written to her, keeping his death in mind, make her realise the extent of their love, which neither of them ever spoke out loud. *This story has been added to @IndiaCentral reading list (Short Story) #94 in Short Story (03-05-2016) #86 in Short Story (04-05-2016) #58 in Short Story (25-06-2016) Copyright © Mauli Singh 2016 ©All Rights Reserved