“Hey, we are gonna be forever. Okay?” the text read.

“Forever and a day more” was the reply.

Then they met for the first time. Or rather, their eyes did.

No sign of recognition, let alone love.

Relationships, they agreed, should best be left to the confines of virtual reality.

Sukanya Ghosh writes stories, stories about pain, because she has felt her portion of it and she intends to bleed it out through the tip of her pen.