Algorithms of Attraction

Random encounters. Chance meetings. Why does fate plant people in our paths and take them away just as fast? The business executive at a hotel or the security person at the airport. A cab driver, a neighbour, or the classmate we never noticed up till the fateful moment.

Those asteroid-like sparks in life's skies, triggered by an odd word, a greeting or a stumble, create connections. Fleeting in physical form but etched in our minds.

The stories finish before 'the words' are said. The unspoken embers that smoulder for days, weeks, months, and years. Sometimes even an entire life.

Not every tale is a hook-up. But some hook-ups do have stories. Dive into this collection with diverse characters. Some are cute, others dark, kinky or simply romantic.

Ashish is a physician and medical research professional from India with a career spanning over 25 years. He self-published a thriller, The Broken Code, in 2018 and a sports rom-com, All the Lines to Cross, in 2020. His first LGBTQ+ work was published with Nine Star Press (USA) in 2022. The second LGBTQ+ work, The 5-Day Plan (Book 1 in the Keely Brothers series), is a romantic comedy that Ashish self-published in 2023.

When Ashish is not busy managing his medical research company, he writes poems, and stories and dabbles in painting.