ABOUT THE Book

A story a day keeps the boredom away! This book is a collection of such eighteen stories written in a span of twenty days, and covers various genres such as mystery, myth, sci-fi, romance and fantasy. This train stops at stations where a boy turns out a saviour, a simple ring becomes an amulet, goons invade a grocery store, people in a village disappear at night, technology takes over half of world, a girl is considered to be bad-omen, a girl dwells in novels, the town clock has something mysterious about it, a mystery solver saves her sister, crossword puzzles turns out to be clues, a bookworm is about to be proposed to, a pizza from a non-existent pizza house gets delivered, and it doesn’t stop here. With a total of eighteen stops, you experience various flavours, as there in popcorn. Do you want to solve these mysteries? Then, hop onto this train with your favourite flavour of popcorn in hand to experience this adventurous ride!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bhavna Jagnani, a student based in Kolkata, West Bengal, is pursuing English Honours from The Bhawanipur Education Society College. She loves to read and write, is always up for challenges, and aims to become a writer. She has won some awards in the past –won around five Poetry Prompts organised weekly by Kloud9 on its Instagram page story titled ‘Hidden –Can You See It?’ considered as one of the winning short stories of the contest ‘PenFluenza 2.0’ on theme ‘A Photograph’ organised by WriteFluence in December 2021-January 2022, and published in the resultant anthology ‘Sepia’; story titled ‘The Holy Grail’ considered as one of the winning short stories of the contest ‘LGBTQ Romance/Betrayal’ on the theme of betrayal organised by WriteFluence in July-August 2021, and published in the resultant anthology ‘A Lie On Her Lips’; third prize in Inter College Book Review organised by Banwarilal Bhalotia College in September 2021; and third prize in ‘All-India Short Story Contest 2019 (Senior Category)’