A City Full of Stories

A City Full of Stories is a collection of short fiction stories, divided into three volumes. All stories bring to life the magical cities of Mumbai and adjoining Thane. Hence the name ’A City Full of Stories’.Volume 1 contains 12 short stories. The 12 short stories bring out emotions, events and thoughts that are bound to tie the reader on how urban life goes about. Right from a street dog to a coconut seller, the characters etch a short but sharp impression in the reader’s mind. There are also stories about how a typical urban mind works - the confusion, chaos and clarity - a new way of story telling called ’thought fiction’.Volume 2 contains 4 medium length stories. Each story is as contrasting as possible. Volume 3 contains a novella - ’CUPID OVER COFFEE’. The story unravels two propositions of love, by two different men - Flight Lieutenant Manoj Bisht and Anand Ramakrishnan, a Mumbai based IT professional, to the protagonist Ananya Bhattacharya, in contrasting styles - more importantly, a decade apart. The story spans across a decade of Ananya’s life, her growth, struggles and her response to both the propositions, all over different forms of coffee.The stories are bound to bring the reader a range of emotions and thoughts connecting to the characters’ lives.  Join the author in exploring a cocktail of simplicity and depth of Mumbai’s stories. Don’t forget to read the Author’s Notes which reveal the secret sauce at the end of each story.