Foundclues Stories

> Mishka Verma doesn't believe in magic - but she does believe in secrets. Her sketchbook is the only place she hides them... until one day, it disappears at the school art fest and returns three days later with extra pages. Pages she didn't draw. Pages that lead to real places - old tunnels, hidden letters, and a mystery buried deeper than the school's history itself. Enter Ayaan Kapoor - the new boy with hacker eyes and a smile that looks like a problem. He claims he knows nothing, yet every clue somehow circles back to him. Between cryptic sketches, late-night decoding, and unspoken feelings, Mishka realizes something: Some secrets aren't meant to be kept... especially the ones your heart draws on its own. ✦ mystery ✦ sarcasm ✦ found clues ✦ Gen Z chaos ✦ Because in the art of keeping secrets, sometimes the truth sketches itself.

Sixteen‑year‑old Avery Brooks thinks her biggest problem is studying for exams. With her house full of relatives - her grandparents, her uncle and aunt, and her two chaotic cousins - she barely has space to breathe, let alone focus. But everything changes the day her family announces a surprise trip. Avery expects a normal vacation. She expects airport crowds, long lines, and her cousins arguing over snacks. She does not expect to find a boarding pass tucked into an airport seat pocket... with two shaky words written on the back: Help me. No name. No signature. No explanation. When Avery tries to report it, no one takes her seriously. But the boarding pass belongs to a woman who checked in for her flight - and never boarded. As Avery digs deeper, she uncovers a trail of clues pointing to a woman who may have been trying to escape someone. A woman who vanished without a trace. A woman who might still be out there. And Avery is the only one who believes something is wrong. A simple family trip becomes the beginning of a mystery that will change her life - and someone else's - forever.

Inaya runs a grief counseling service for the broken-hearted, but there's just one problem.... she's not a real therapist. What began as a desperate hustle to survive turned into a strangely therapeutic game : she listens to people mourn their lost lovers, takes notes, asks the right questions... and gives the wrong advice. But when several of her clients start describing eerily similar tragedies, lovers dying under mysterious circumstances, all somehow connected to one man - Inaya's carefully constructed lie starts to unravel. That man is Rayaan: quiet, unreadable, and too familiar for someone she's supposedly never met. As Inaya dives deeper into the pasts of the people who died, and into Rayaan's haunted world, she begins to question her own history - the fragments of fire she dreams about, the name she doesn't remember, and the truth she might've buried to stay alive. What if the man she's investigating is the one person who's known her all along? What if the stranger... was never him? She Was Never a Stranger is a fictional dark romcom-thriller where laughter covers trauma, love hides behind lies, and healing comes with a body count. >>>She fell for him without knowing the truth. He knew the truth and still didn't fall back. Because some love stories aren't written to end well - they're written to be survived.