All Stories Are (Paperback)

All Stories Are is a literary short story collection that explores what happens when identity begins to fracture. These six contemporary short stories closely observe the quiet moments when life changes without warning.

The collection follows:

- A woman losing her memory to a mental health condition embarks on a perilous journey to find her lost love.
- An overlooked student steps into the shoes of a stern teacher for two days and faces a life-altering turning point.
- A well-read physicist finds her world view upended by a stranger travelling with pure faith.
- A speed-sketch artist, bound by his habits, has to choose between restraint and curiosity
- A blind librarian who built an intricate sensory fortress to manage his library finds his isolated world upended when a perceptive reader decodes his exact framework.
- A neurodivergent teenager is frozen by sensory overload learns to slow down and use surroundings to claw his way back.

Each story offers an intimate, visual journey into a mind at a breaking point, asking a quiet but unsettling question:
What remains when the stories we tell ourselves no longer hold? Across the collection, characters navigate invisible boundaries, with readers often becoming silent characters themselves. These atmospheric stories show that true transformation rarely arrives through grand disruption, but rather through silent endurance, everyday routines, and the small moments of grace that hold us together.

All Stories Are places the reader into the raw, sensory friction of their minds, where high stake battles happen in absolute silence. The collection treats human vulnerability as an architecture, mapping out the tiny, desperate rituals we use to keep from breaking when the world gets too loud.

Through psychologically rich, emotionally grounded storytelling, All Stories Are explores vulnerability, resilience, disability, memory, and self-perception. These stories do not offer easy answers. Instead, they invite the reader to sit with uncertainty, empathy, and the fragile ways we construct meaning.

To readers, All Stories Are is beautifully layered collection that elevates "Healing Fiction" through meticulous and relatable characters. If you enjoy literary fiction that focuses on inner lives, psychological tension, and human struggle, this collection will stay with you long after the final page.

Read All Stories Are slowly.
Let each story settle.

Because when everything familiar falls away, what remains is who we really are.

Rishikesh is a seasoned storyteller with a celebrated career in script writing, advertising, and narrative building. He has a wealth of lived experiences spanning over a decade
All Stories Are is a lyrical exploration of the essential human constants forged in a world of beautiful chaos. A literary journey that began in search of the profound inner constant in The Trees Sing echoes deeper with All Stories Are.