Dark Fantasy author
My writing blends fantasy, magical realism, horror, romance and humour to create intriguing stories that thrill—and chill. My work includes an anthology of fractured fairy tales, several short stories, a microfiction series, and an interactive fiction...
Love reading about badass women? Sick of cliched plots? Tired of lovesick vampires and sappy angels?
Then this is the book for you.Dark Things Between the Shadow and the Soul features twenty-two intriguing dark fantasy stories inspired by Indian mythology.
So, are you ready?
Enter a world where demons fall in love with deities, the dead are exorcised with food, and magic is around every corner.
Featuring cross-dressing assassins, were-snakes, goddesses and demon kings, Dark Things serves up age-old tales from Indian mythology—with a twist.
For newbies to the genre, Dark Things includes a quick primer on Indian mythology—all you need to know about Hinduism to enjoy the book. Bonus features include wiki-links to unfamiliar terms.
With footnotes and an afterword to each story explaining the mythology to casual readers, these short stories will delight lovers of the unusual.
Indireads - a global publishing firm committed to revolutionizing the popular fiction genre in South Asia - held a short story competition in 2013.
In their own words:
Indireads' 1st Short Story Competition 2013 yielded some extraordinary talent (...) such as (...) Sudha Kuruganti’s 'Together Forever’.
Indireads compiled the winning entries into a compelling anthology, The Long and Short of It, highlighting the immense creativity that exists in South Asia.
When Bhavani first hears someone knocking from inside her mirror, she thinks she’s lost her mind.
Trapped in an unbearable home life, stuck in a dead-end job; she’s sure the pressure has finally caught up with her.
But the being from the mirror promises to set her life right, and Bhavani thinks to herself: what has she got to lose?
And at first, everything’s perfect.
As time goes by, though, it becomes clear that Bhavani’s reflection isn’t what it seems. It has needs of its own—and some of them are decidedly bloodthirsty.