Seventeen years ago, a woman found a basket with a beautiful little baby girl peacefully sleeping inside of it. She raised her as her own, always hiding the truth of their first encounter, until one night two strangers appear at their hut in the mountains and everything changes. With the help of the diary that had lain in the basket with the girl, Zarina leaves the tiny settlement of Soreh for the first time in her life and takes on an adventure to find the place where she belongs, not knowing whether she will ever find what she is looking for.

1. "PARADISE LOST" Sensing the world around her in all its colours and sounds, this had not been her first trip to paradise. But it would certainly be her last. In my 1st semester we were given 6 words that had to be worked into a short story, and this is what I came up with. Can you guess which words I had to include? Dating of October 2017, this is my very first attempt to writing very short fiction. 2. STRINGS ON AN EMPTY WALL A simple description of an empty wall and the imagined story behind 3. IN A TRAIN 4. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN