The Silent Livestream of the Residency Gate

By Prashant Mishra

Kunal Roy, a nineteen-year-old freelance translator navigating the glass corridors of a Bengaluru startup campus, has spent years burying the question that cost him his closest friendship. When a campus ghost story turns out to match an unsolved disappearance, and the missing person's child arrives carrying a musician's guitar and a suspicious tattoo, Kunal's careful silence begins to crack. Every clue he surfaces tightens around a wellness app trading in stolen voices, a wrongfully arrested friend, and a career that will dissolve the moment the truth goes public. In a race between loyalty and survival, Kunal must decide whether the person everyone mourned ever really left, and why they came back.