The Day Before Today: Lockdown Stories

Clever, witty, cruel, dark, dystopian, compelling - these dire stories for our times declare that the future has arrived.- Namita Gokhale, Writer and Co-director, Jaipur Literature FestivalGayatri has a very special flair of storytelling. She grabs your attention from the very first page. Intense and unputdownable!-Guneet Monga, Academy Award winning producer of Gangs of Wasseypur-Part 1, The Lunchbox, Masaan, Zubaan.Truth-telling at its irreverent best.-Sanjoy K. Roy, MD, Teamwork Arts and Producer, Jaipur Literature Festival.Dark entrancing short tales laced with piquant humor. -Tigmanshu Dhulia, National Award- winning director and filmmaker.Ominous, dark, futuristic. A well-crafted debut . - Huma Qureshi, ActorIn a land far away, a bat stirs up a cauldron of trouble. In the sanitized new world that emerges, everything has changed. A midnight feast in the kitchen is par for the course when theres no school tomorrow-or any tomorrow to come. A status update on Facebook is your only communication with a sibling in a containment zone. A young girl obsesses about the masked stranger in the aisles of a supermarket, while in a deserted guesthouse, a ghost falls in love with the mother of a newborn. Neighbourhood parties on Zoom become the new normal, as the children of a dystopian world invent strange new games, and a glamorous socialite finds there is someone who can use her discarded Covid Cupboard, after all. It is even possible to commit murder and get away with it, if youre part of the essential services brigade. Or find new ways to use an empty swimming pool.Part fairy tale, part nightmare, The Day Before Today is a collection of dark, delicious short fiction that will make us rethink the world we took for granted. The E-book bestseller now in print with 5 bold new stories.