Threads of Longings Shadows of Loss: Tales Inspired by True Lives - Softcover

Sharma, Dr. Vandana

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798262478644

Verlag: Independently published, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Between innocence and betrayal, hope and despair, the soul learns to endure.

Life often shapes us through circumstances beyond our control, quietly testing the resilience of the human spirit. Dreams rise and dissolve, trust is betrayed, and love sometimes blooms only to remain unfulfilled. Yet in these fragile and uncertain spaces, people discover courage, endurance, and dignity.

Inspired by the real lives of late 20th-century India, Threads of Longings, Shadows of Loss is a collection of five powerful short stories tracing the changing landscape of human relationships across decades of shifting traditions and modern awakenings:

• Innocence Lost in the Hills – Saroj, a naïve hill girl, entrusts her heart to a man whose truth remains hidden. When trust meets betrayal, the hills echo with silence.
• A Love Unclaimed – Arvind and Leena share a bond too deep for words, too sacred for touch. A love eternal, yet forever out of reach.
• A Name of Joy – A Life of Pain – In an act of pity, Sukhdev ties his fate to another’s, only to find kindness turned into a curse. When compassion becomes the seed of suffering.
• Laal Sari – Abhilasha wraps her silent desires in crimson folds, carrying the weight of dreams that destiny will not grant. A sari of red, woven with longing and loss.
• An Unyielding Thread – Anita’s world unravels in betrayal and deceit, yet she refuses to surrender the thread of her dignity. The strength to stand when everything else falls apart.

Together, these stories form a tapestry of love and longing, betrayal and endurance. They remind us that the struggles we read about are not distant fictions, but lived experiences - fragments of real hearts, real choices, and real consequences. In giving them voice, these narratives honour the resilience of those whose stories might otherwise have remained unheard.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798262478644
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 115
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