Crowns & Curses is an anthology of two short stories titled “Lavender Scar” & “Sky & Sea”, published in 2015 & 2017. Dealing with the themes of love, power and jealousy, the stories in the anthology have royals, crowns & mythical creatures.
Additionally, both stories deal with complicated families fighting within themselves to achieve dreams that lead them nowhere. In “Lavender Scar”, jealousy and improper decision-making lead to harm, and in “Sky & Sea”, it is an undiscussed choice that leads to the consequence.
Story I
Jealousy compounded with insult leads to anger that pushes people to make reckless decisions and wish ill-intended harm on others. When one reaches this point, it doesn’t matter who the other person is, as the emotion to make them pay outways everything else.
“Lavender Scar” by R. S. Chintalapati tells the story of two sisters who grow apart due to their circumstances. Showing how jealousy pushes one of them to act against her own blood, this story is about the set of events that happen after this ill-minded decision breaks the family forever.
Story II
Sky & Sea is the story of a sky prince and a sea mermaid falling in love and deciding to lead a life together. Coming from different worlds, neither of their families agree to their proposal but inexperience and desire make the couple decide thereby setting forth the events that change everything.
Divided into three parts titled “Moonlight Kiss”, “Ocean’s Twirl”, & “The Sparkling Sky”, the story of Sky & Sea explores the idea of what could happen if one chose to live life free-willed, by taking decisions on their own come what may.
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