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Coming 2026 · Book Two

Storms and Oranges

He boards a bus to Goa with nothing but a rucksack and the vague hope of feeling real again.

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A literary voice from Kanpur

For anyone who has stood in a full room and felt invisible.

“Some stories are written to be finished. These were written to be felt.”

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The Work

Two books, written to be felt.

Coming 2026 · Book Two

Storms and Oranges

“For anyone who has ever needed to go somewhere far away just to find themselves close.”

Written by Saumil Jain · Edited by Yashila Vikas

He had been making himself smaller for seven months. He just hadn’t noticed.

He boards a bus to Goa with nothing but a rucksack and the vague hope of feeling real again. What he finds there is not what he expected.

Storms and Oranges is a story about the weight we carry without knowing, the moments that crack something open, and what becomes possible on the other side.

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“The rain started somewhere near Panvel. He pressed his forehead against the glass and watched the world dissolve into streaks of grey and green. For the first time in months, he felt the possibility of being someone he had not yet been.”

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Constellations of Absence

“He was present in every room, but essential in none.”

Constellations of Absence follows Aryan through the uncertain space between school and college. Through rejection letters and mountain treks, new friendships and quiet heartbreaks. It is not a story about catastrophe.

It is about something far more ordinary and far more devastating: the slow realization that you may not be as essential to others as they are to you. The loneliness that does not announce itself. The kind that settles in when you are surrounded by people you genuinely love, and you still wonder, somewhere beneath the laughter, whether your absence would disturb anything at all.

Pages
100
Paperback
₹249
Hardcover
₹349
Portrait of Saumil Jain
Saumil Jain
Kanpur, India
About

The writer behind the silence.

I write about the things we carry without saying. My fiction lives in the quiet country between belonging and invisibility: in classrooms, dinner tables, mountain treks, and bus stations, where the loudest thing is often what no one is naming.

I am interested in the architecture of small disappearances. The way a person can be loved, surrounded, and still ask the smallest question: would it matter, really, if I left this room?

My work is for the reader who has felt unseen in a crowded room. For the one who has wondered whether their absence would disturb anything at all. I believe some stories are not meant to be solved. Only honored.

“I do not write to console. I write to name what we carry silently, so it is no longer carried alone.”
Reader Letters

What readers have said.

Excellent book, very well structured. So relatable. So real and authentic. Waiting for the sequel.
Jainr8289
Excellent book, must read. Touched my heart in ways I didn’t expect. Simple yet exceptionally well written.
Yashila Vikash Gupta
One of the best. A bestseller soon.
Anish Das