Chrysanthemums Up On Blue Hill

Not your average badboy story. Word count 55,000-60,000

In an overseas territory of the post Portuguese ruled era, annexed during the colonial rule and encompassing in the northern Himalayan region, framed by an indo-portuguese heritage lives a quaint fictional town of Thorttlebranch. Obscuring a revengeful, vindictive, nineteen-year-old kookish, Blithe stone seeks hideout in the odd town. Veiling a new identity as 'Sienna Holper' she accumulates fragments of her life from spending four years in a juvenile reformatory for being embroiled in a crime. She enrolls herself as a counsellor in the only juvenile reformatory center the town holds for delinquents to start a living.

However, when an 18-year-old River Hodge is admitted as a delinquent, not your next-door neighbor's hormonal raging son but frivolous and blatant exterior wise yet concealed with the tag of 'insolence' before everyone's eyes. But we all know it's more than that. Resonance and friendship grow between sienna and River, the definition of existentialism, religion and life unfolds evolving into self-awareness between each one's past and pain.

With past that unconsciously gobbles up their present. With present that's painted with humor and honey. Unseen by the coated consciousness they live in. Because normality is so damned underrated that people do not notice it lies among themselves.