The Final Draft

They are all there in the valley of stories. Let us travel through it.

‘The Final Draft’ is the leading story in collection of twelve short stores exploring a range of themes, characters and settings. These are stories of love – both lost and found; war and terrorism; crime and creativity; even a children’s parable and a ghost story. In the title story, a dying writer tries to complete his masterpiece as his wife struggles to keep him alive. What happens when he finishes it? A beautiful woman visits a place by the shoreline awaiting her lover who was killed in an air crash there. He arrives. And then? An Afghan terrorist rapes a young school teacher in Kashmir. How does she get her revenge? And what happens to an Army officer on his first patrol across No-Man’s Land. Or the officer who plays a masquerade with a man on his death bed. When the virus devastates the world, we get a glimpse of a darkly plausible future in a Cloistered City. And discover how rainbows are created; or see a brilliant art-heist take an unexpected turn.