After the Dark

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A BOY IS PUSHED TO THE WALL AND A GIRL HAS TO FIGHT FOR HER HONOR AND FREEDOM?

Gopi, just 11 years, has promised to bring smile to Ria.  She is rich but handicapped.  Gopi is poor and broken.  But it was a promise he could die for.  Thus, begins his transformation from a boy to a man who is unknowingly on a collision course with the high and mighty.  But he is none to be stopped.  He knows he will have to do something unthinkable to bring her a smile.

His elder sister Seema is just 15 and has been kidnapped by money lender and kept with other inmates in the hostage camp.  With goons hovering around, she has no choice except to fight back, or to escape.  Both are fatal.  When pushed to the corner one day by a guard, she stares at her horrible self – that she could murder.   Thereafter, one day she manages to escape with another inmate only to frustratingly return to her enclosure when her friend is shot dead by guards.  And just when she was beginning to surrender to her fate, destiny throws yet another chance for a shot at freedom but with a repulsive rider – she will have to protect the ones who she would be happy to kill.  The rider is that she will have to save her captor from a deadly conspiracy. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rohit Pagare is a story writer, poet and a hobby guitarist.  The story is a result of his interactions with people and is a true account.