Living in a Mirage
ahajnal
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  • Time 10h 47m
ahajnal
Ongoing, First published Apr 27, 2019
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Manik Malhotra, Nandini's soulmate & Cabir's best friend, has been missing for the past 4 years, presumed dead in a car accident he had been involved in, yet the circumstances of his disappearance were strange. For the past 4 years, the two had teamed up to search for Manik, but remained empty-handed, encountering dead-ends. While Nandini was believed to be living a mirage by refusing to accept Manik's death, Cabir was accused of encouraging her delusional behavior. Just when all hope seemed lost, Nandini supposedly found him.

"I know I have been proven wrong before, but it was him..." Nandini recounted, vividly.

Battling with the fear of Nandini losing her sanity and the hope of finding Manik, Cabir, along with Nandini, embarks on a journey to find him.

***

Manik Malhotra had been on the brink of losing his sanity for years now, torn between reality and imagination, confusing one with the other, he had thought he had been running behind a mirage. He was told there was no Nandini, yet right before he was standing the girl everyone claimed had been only a figment of his imagination...

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Awarded:- 
#Featured Stories - Best of Outreach Hidden Gems - November 2022 - by Wattpad Outreach Team
#"Top performance", 5.5 ⭐ -  "one of top performance" - reviewed by "The Mystical Awards - June edition 2020"
#1st place 🥇 in "MaNan - Long story writer" - Judging round - Star and Moon PaNi/MaNan awards
#1st place 🥇 in "MaNan - Long story writer" Judging round - SILVER AQUA AWARD 2020
#2nd Place  in the category of "General Fiction" - THE CRYSTAL ROSE AWARDS
#3rd place 🥉 in the category "Fanfiction - Indian" - Tricolor Triennial Awards
#3rd Place 🥉 in the category "Fanfiction" - The 10 Awards 2020

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