Title: Paras
Description: At the age of twenty, Sasha returns from Miami to her old, dusty ancestral town, Varunabad, to reunite with the inner child she barely remembers. There, she discovers healing, nostalgia, nature, and the lover who reared her self-doubts. What ensues is a passionate love story with Paras, set in a scorching little town alive with exotic fruit and scarred by relatives. In this wondrous short story, Sasha’s journey evokes anxiety, adventure, and love, brought to life by author Sameer Khan Brohi’s vibrant imagery and a tale that possesses raw emotions.
Subjects: Cheese, Roman Empire, Psychology, Fiction, romance, general
Places: London (England), Atlantis, Omaha, Karachi (Pakistan), Maharashtra (India)
People: Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), Julian of Norwich (b. 1343), Tintin (Fictitious character)
Time periods: 2020, Pandemics, a remote village in Turkey