" I - An anthology "

After a brief hiatus, I'm back on the "my short story got published" bandwagon.

Featured in FirstStep PavingWays "I - An anthology", this one differs from most of the stories I've written over the last 12 months because it is based on a true story. The publishers looked to see how various authors in India would use the simple premise of the word "I" to narrate a tale (The book cover itself plays upon that theme, with the word "I" shown in various languages).
It seems ironic that it took a long time for me to return back to the 'medical / true story' genre... it was the first genre of mine which had got published back in 2011 ( Chicken Soup for the Indian Doctor's Soul ) and motivated me to carry on writing, leading to more published stories.

"The Girl without a Face" is based on a true story about a young teenage girl I treated in the hospital and how her circumstances, her attitude and her determination affected me as the days progressed. As it is with most medicine based stories, there are no villains here other than circumstances; no heroes here except hope... and the will power of a young girl.

I love that the publishers dedicated individual pages to each author. It would have been so easy to just ignore it (and even the authors themselves) as most Indian anthologies do but to see this is truly heartening for the contributing authors. Perhaps even better is that there is a page dedicated to all the authors in the book at their blog as well.

Every author gets his own page too inside the book... how lovely is that?

As I type this, the book has already gone out of stock at Infibeam which had a slightly better discount, I noticed. 

Anyway, here are the links to buy it from Amazon , Flipkart and Infibeam. 

I sincerely hope you enjoy this book.