Once upon a Someone: Stories

A mysterious fortune teller on a train across a timescape helps simplify the mysteries of life. Green leopards,
flying whales, marshmallow wars & a quirky origin story of everything from gender equality to global warming.
A cynical poet & an affluent socialite spend an evening together & empty each other’s hearts of all the unused
melancholy in them. An incoherent girl helps simplify the life of the most sorted boy of her class. A reluctant
purchase of a jar of peanut butter leads to a serendipitous discovery of a dead author. A fiction writer’s
characters rise in revolt & refuse to obey his pen. A deserted town that has only unmanned flower stalls left in it.
Two men from different generations cling on to each other with their last grip on a vanishing bloodline. Two
hyper-competitive professionals become friends for life under the unlikeliest of circumstances. A voyeur and an
exhibitionist discover one another, each unaware of the other’s version of reality. Two star-crossed lovers whose
orbits keep colliding & drifting away from each other. A man misses his regular commute & walks into an
alternate existence in a strange land. A queer old man shows up & intrudes young Kafka just as he is about to
propose to his girlfriend. A man falls back in love with his wife the day after their divorce. An age ends &
another begins when three destinies come together during a brief intermission for one violent collision before
disintegrating forever, taking all the music with them.
These are only a few of the routes by which Ayon Banerjee takes you on a roller-coaster ride of plots that cut
through genres & weaves together an unputdownable collection of stories which seamlessly drift from the
classical to modern style of telling short stories that narrate missed journeys & accidental destinations, archived
conversations & clandestine confessions, love & loss, destiny & time.