Five people. Five lives. Five tales. Each of them is struggling through life and these struggles aren't something extraordinary. The journey is of friendship, questioning norms, fighting set standards and in doing so, maybe, stumbling upon love as well.

She chose her apartment because she liked the attached balcony and the peace and quiet it afforded her. That is soon about to change thanks to a new neighbour. Author's Note: This story is dedicated to my person, my Yang, my Lorelai. I write today because you asked why not. Cover Picture Courtesy: To the ever lovely @AasthaKatrela!

Vedanth Avinash Tiwari or as she knew him, Ved, was the epitome of success--both by professional standards but also by the myopic laws that governed South Asian society's fickle opinion of a person. And by no means was either perception a happy accident. But a man, with seemingly nothing left to want, at his core only had unfulfillment & longing to offer to himself. A broken soul, devoid of life's one essential happiness. Love. And most of it, like everything else in his life, was his own doing. * Love used to make Bhumi's world go round. It was the only thing that could provide her some respite from the restlessness within her. However that was seven years ago, before Bhumika Shekhar Mistry woke up from her daydream. Having exiled (read: freed) herself from the shackles of "polite" Indian society years ago, she's worked tirelessly to make a name for herself in world she built on her own terms. And this world would revolve around her, only her.

Sometimes all the parched valley of heart needs is a drop of Petrichor. Noor Fatimah hasn't had it easy but still she faces every obstacle in her life with a smile on her face and a firm faith in her heart. When circumstances shake the very base of her being , she comes across the worst nightmare of her life. But in all this her feet stumble upon a confusion she can't seem to understand. A confusion named Rayyan Ahmed Khan. He's cynical. He's a bad news. And he questions everything she's always believed in. Two very different people from two very different worlds cross paths. One is determined to get out of the dark shadows looming over her while the other cherish the darkness he's living from within. Can she be the drop of petrichor he needs? Or will he be the storm she's hell bent on avoiding. And will love have a role to play here? Highest Rank: 2 in Spiritual Winner of The Fiction Awards 2019