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Romance In My Coffee
ROMANCE IN MY COFFEE
Inviting you to sip your coffee with the flavour of ROMANCE ...
A lonely teenager hides from their classmates during prom.
A girl has a crush she's embarrassed to admit to.
A boy recalls the story of sharing a berth on a train.
Every story is a love story, and there's a love story for everyone. This book contains ten voices, each inimitable and captivating, to create a formidable collection of stories that speaks to our one deep to be loved.
The In My Coffee anthology series will feature short stories on a variety of themes from romance to science fiction to humour to fantasy and much else. Each one perfect to mix in your coffee!
ABOUT THE AUTHORS-
Jerry Pinto lives and works and writes and thinks and translates and eats and drinks and runs and ruminates and loves and hates and sleeps and rises and dreams and does and undoes and shoves and pushes and waits and watches and hopes and laughs and edits and verbs his life away in the middle of a city with many names by a sullen and grey sea.
Nisha Susan is the author of The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and other stories. She is an editor and a translator. She always has homework and currently has exams.
Andaleeb Wajid is a hybrid author, having published nearly 50 novels in the past 15 years. Andaleeb's YA novel Asmara's Summer was adapted for screen to become Dil, Dosti, Dilemma on Amazon Prime and other works are in the process of being optioned or adapted. Her YA novel, The Henna Start-up is the winner of the Neev Literature Festival Award 2024, Crossword Book Award 2024, and TOI Auther Award 2025.
Anurag Banerjee (b. 1991) is an independent photographer based between his hometown, Shillong and Bombay. He self-published his first book I'mnot here in 2022 which explored the conundrum of belonging to two places at once. His following books The Songs of Our People-I & II looked at identity and belonging through the lives of musicians in Meghalaya.
Riddhi Dastidar is a writer and reporter who lives in Delhi. They have four cats and over fourteen tattoos. On the internet Riddhi is called @gaachburi.
Gankhu Sumnyan teaches English at a government college in Arunachal Pradesh. His stories have appeared in Out of Print, GulmoharQuarterly, Cafe Dissensus, East India Story, and in the anthology The Best Asian Short Stories 2021.
Suniti Namjoshi is a fabulist, a poet, a satirist and a feminist. Her books include Feminist Fables, The Blue Donkey Fables, The Fabulous Feminist, Suki, Aesop the Fox, The Good-Hearted Gardeners and most recently Matriarchs, Cows and Epic Villains.
K Vaishali (she/her) is based in Hyderabad, India. Her memoir Growing Up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India, published by Yoda Press and Simon & Schuster, won the 2024 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar and was shortlisted for the Rainbow Awards.
Aravind Jayan is a writer from Trivandrum, Kerala. He won the Toto Funds the Arts Award in 2017 and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2021. His first novel, Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors, was named a 'best book of 2022' by Open Magazine, The Wire, Deccan Chronicle and others. It was also shortlisted for the Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, and has been translated into several languages.
Meera Ganapathi is an author and the founder/ editor of the literary and arts publication, The Soup. Her book on walking, How to Forget was published by HarperCollins in May 2025. Meera has written various books for children, like, The Girl Who Could Not Stop Laughing, Uma vs Upma and Paati vs UNCLE (Puffin India).
Inviting you to sip your coffee with the flavour of ROMANCE ...
A lonely teenager hides from their classmates during prom.
A girl has a crush she's embarrassed to admit to.
A boy recalls the story of sharing a berth on a train.
Every story is a love story, and there's a love story for everyone. This book contains ten voices, each inimitable and captivating, to create a formidable collection of stories that speaks to our one deep to be loved.
The In My Coffee anthology series will feature short stories on a variety of themes from romance to science fiction to humour to fantasy and much else. Each one perfect to mix in your coffee!
ABOUT THE AUTHORS-
Jerry Pinto lives and works and writes and thinks and translates and eats and drinks and runs and ruminates and loves and hates and sleeps and rises and dreams and does and undoes and shoves and pushes and waits and watches and hopes and laughs and edits and verbs his life away in the middle of a city with many names by a sullen and grey sea.
Nisha Susan is the author of The Women Who Forgot to Invent Facebook and other stories. She is an editor and a translator. She always has homework and currently has exams.
Andaleeb Wajid is a hybrid author, having published nearly 50 novels in the past 15 years. Andaleeb's YA novel Asmara's Summer was adapted for screen to become Dil, Dosti, Dilemma on Amazon Prime and other works are in the process of being optioned or adapted. Her YA novel, The Henna Start-up is the winner of the Neev Literature Festival Award 2024, Crossword Book Award 2024, and TOI Auther Award 2025.
Anurag Banerjee (b. 1991) is an independent photographer based between his hometown, Shillong and Bombay. He self-published his first book I'mnot here in 2022 which explored the conundrum of belonging to two places at once. His following books The Songs of Our People-I & II looked at identity and belonging through the lives of musicians in Meghalaya.
Riddhi Dastidar is a writer and reporter who lives in Delhi. They have four cats and over fourteen tattoos. On the internet Riddhi is called @gaachburi.
Gankhu Sumnyan teaches English at a government college in Arunachal Pradesh. His stories have appeared in Out of Print, GulmoharQuarterly, Cafe Dissensus, East India Story, and in the anthology The Best Asian Short Stories 2021.
Suniti Namjoshi is a fabulist, a poet, a satirist and a feminist. Her books include Feminist Fables, The Blue Donkey Fables, The Fabulous Feminist, Suki, Aesop the Fox, The Good-Hearted Gardeners and most recently Matriarchs, Cows and Epic Villains.
K Vaishali (she/her) is based in Hyderabad, India. Her memoir Growing Up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India, published by Yoda Press and Simon & Schuster, won the 2024 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar and was shortlisted for the Rainbow Awards.
Aravind Jayan is a writer from Trivandrum, Kerala. He won the Toto Funds the Arts Award in 2017 and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2021. His first novel, Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors, was named a 'best book of 2022' by Open Magazine, The Wire, Deccan Chronicle and others. It was also shortlisted for the Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, and has been translated into several languages.
Meera Ganapathi is an author and the founder/ editor of the literary and arts publication, The Soup. Her book on walking, How to Forget was published by HarperCollins in May 2025. Meera has written various books for children, like, The Girl Who Could Not Stop Laughing, Uma vs Upma and Paati vs UNCLE (Puffin India).
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Published November 5, 2025
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December 4, 2025
'An anthology that feels like reliving the gentlest parts of growing up.'
This is a tender, thoughtfully curated collection of ten stories—each one exploring a different kind of love, friendship, longing, and self-discovery. What makes this anthology stand out is not just the writing talent it brings together, but how deeply familiar these stories feel. They’re not grand romances or dramatic heartbreaks. They’re the small, precious moments we often forget to cherish until a book like this brings them back to the surface.
What really stays with you is how effortlessly these stories slip into your own memories. There’s a sense of innocence running through the book—of trying to make friends, of understanding yourself, of wanting to be a little braver than you actually are. The characters feel like people we once knew, or maybe versions of who we used to be. Their anxieties, their hopes, their attempts at belonging… everything is written with a quiet honesty that feels almost personal.
The nostalgia in this anthology is beautifully subtle. As I read, I kept thinking of those childhood friendships that turned into secret crushes, those neighbourly bonds that shifted in ways we didn’t expect, those moments where love and resentment intertwined without us even realising it. The book captures that bittersweet space between growing up and growing apart—the way people drift, return, misunderstand, forgive, and still somehow matter to each other.
Some stories carry the weight of wanting to prove something—to family, to society, or to ourselves. The boy learning English just to make his family proud, or the small-town boy trying to impress the city girl, reminded me of the quiet pressures we all carry during our teenage years. Those silent, unspoken dreams of becoming “good enough” for the world around us. These moments aren’t flashy, but they’re powerful because they’re true. You feel the tenderness, the earnestness, the vulnerability in every line.
By the time I finished the book, it felt like I had taken a long, slow walk through my own past. This is soft, comforting, and delicately emotional—the kind of read that wraps around you like a memory you didn’t know you missed. It brings back the warmth of early friendships, the sting of misunderstandings, the magic of first feelings, and the ache of wanting to be seen. It’s a collection that leaves you a little nostalgic, a little tender, and very, very human
This is a tender, thoughtfully curated collection of ten stories—each one exploring a different kind of love, friendship, longing, and self-discovery. What makes this anthology stand out is not just the writing talent it brings together, but how deeply familiar these stories feel. They’re not grand romances or dramatic heartbreaks. They’re the small, precious moments we often forget to cherish until a book like this brings them back to the surface.
What really stays with you is how effortlessly these stories slip into your own memories. There’s a sense of innocence running through the book—of trying to make friends, of understanding yourself, of wanting to be a little braver than you actually are. The characters feel like people we once knew, or maybe versions of who we used to be. Their anxieties, their hopes, their attempts at belonging… everything is written with a quiet honesty that feels almost personal.
The nostalgia in this anthology is beautifully subtle. As I read, I kept thinking of those childhood friendships that turned into secret crushes, those neighbourly bonds that shifted in ways we didn’t expect, those moments where love and resentment intertwined without us even realising it. The book captures that bittersweet space between growing up and growing apart—the way people drift, return, misunderstand, forgive, and still somehow matter to each other.
Some stories carry the weight of wanting to prove something—to family, to society, or to ourselves. The boy learning English just to make his family proud, or the small-town boy trying to impress the city girl, reminded me of the quiet pressures we all carry during our teenage years. Those silent, unspoken dreams of becoming “good enough” for the world around us. These moments aren’t flashy, but they’re powerful because they’re true. You feel the tenderness, the earnestness, the vulnerability in every line.
By the time I finished the book, it felt like I had taken a long, slow walk through my own past. This is soft, comforting, and delicately emotional—the kind of read that wraps around you like a memory you didn’t know you missed. It brings back the warmth of early friendships, the sting of misunderstandings, the magic of first feelings, and the ache of wanting to be seen. It’s a collection that leaves you a little nostalgic, a little tender, and very, very human
December 10, 2025
Romance In My Coffee reads like the warmth rising from a mug on a winter evening, soft, fragrant, and lingering. This young adult anthology brings together ten writers, each with an unmistakable voice, to explore love in small, everyday shapes. The book opens with Under the Devil’s Tree by Riddhi Dastidar setting a tone contemplative rather than dramatic, with love humming amidst hurt and quiet. Later, Nisha Susan’s Discord and Andaleeb Wajid’s Accidentally Enemies echo familiar textures of growing up: uncertainties, misread signals, the sweet sting of closeness. And in Sitting on the Porch, Watching the Trains, Gankhu Sumnyan holds that wistful space where memory, longing, and time fold into each other.
Emotions aren't loud across these stories. They are the hush between conversations, a crush someone is too shy to admit, the simple nostalgia of a boy remembering the shared berth of a train journey.
Jerry Pinto always a standout in his writings, brings us @party, which is poetry amidst prose.
This collection understands that romance, especially when we're young, often arrives in half-formed thoughts, fragile openness, the fear of saying too much, and the thrill of saying anything at all.
The anthology goes well with winter, slow pages, a blanket, a cup leaving pale rings on wood. Each story is like a different brew-sometimes milky, sometimes dark, and sometimes unexpectedly sweet-but always tender. The writing is contemporary, reflective, deeply human, and perfectly suited to the young adult heart that wants to feel but hasn't yet learned how to name everything it feels.
As the first offering in the In My Coffee series, this book promises a future of fresh flavours. But for now, it simply asks you to sit still, sip slowly and listen to ten voices tracing the same ancient truth that every story is, in the end, a love story.
Emotions aren't loud across these stories. They are the hush between conversations, a crush someone is too shy to admit, the simple nostalgia of a boy remembering the shared berth of a train journey.
Jerry Pinto always a standout in his writings, brings us @party, which is poetry amidst prose.
This collection understands that romance, especially when we're young, often arrives in half-formed thoughts, fragile openness, the fear of saying too much, and the thrill of saying anything at all.
The anthology goes well with winter, slow pages, a blanket, a cup leaving pale rings on wood. Each story is like a different brew-sometimes milky, sometimes dark, and sometimes unexpectedly sweet-but always tender. The writing is contemporary, reflective, deeply human, and perfectly suited to the young adult heart that wants to feel but hasn't yet learned how to name everything it feels.
As the first offering in the In My Coffee series, this book promises a future of fresh flavours. But for now, it simply asks you to sit still, sip slowly and listen to ten voices tracing the same ancient truth that every story is, in the end, a love story.
December 4, 2025
Winter is so perfect with a collection of short stories and a hot cup of coffee☕
This was such a wholesome read paired with the coffee☕. It is a collection of short stories which explores different vibes of YA- love, friendship, insecurities, humour and many more phases which will definitely take you back through your own memory lane of those old carefree days.
These ten stories are short yet engrossing, perfect when you need a little read enjoying the few sips of your hot beverage or in between your breaks or simply just when you feel like reading and wrapping up in a few pages. I read it one by one, yes, I didn't rush in while reading this one and it was so good.
The simple tales felt like magic as it was refreshing to take a break from busy life and the heavy setting books of romance and fantasy, go back to a simple and soothing YA book. The tales are easy breezy with simple narration with so much content to relate to.
This was such a wholesome read paired with the coffee☕. It is a collection of short stories which explores different vibes of YA- love, friendship, insecurities, humour and many more phases which will definitely take you back through your own memory lane of those old carefree days.
These ten stories are short yet engrossing, perfect when you need a little read enjoying the few sips of your hot beverage or in between your breaks or simply just when you feel like reading and wrapping up in a few pages. I read it one by one, yes, I didn't rush in while reading this one and it was so good.
The simple tales felt like magic as it was refreshing to take a break from busy life and the heavy setting books of romance and fantasy, go back to a simple and soothing YA book. The tales are easy breezy with simple narration with so much content to relate to.
November 24, 2025
The stories are fine, but all the protagonists are kids/ teens.
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