My Books

"Where my thoughts found their way into books."

Welcome to my collection of published works, stories shaped by emotion and experience. Every book here represents a chapter of my creative journey as a writer. These are stories I trusted the world with, one page at a time. I hope you find something here that stays with you.

The Water Never Tells: A Psychological Thriller Told in Poems

There is a lake far from the city.
Quiet. Still. Unassuming.

People come here to rest, to think, to escape. They leave believing the water forgets them as easily as it reflects the sky.

It doesn’t.

The Water Never Tells is a psychological thriller told through poetry and prose. Following an unnamed, unreliable narrator, the book traces a slow descent from calm observation into obsession, fractured memory, and quiet confession.

What begins as atmospheric reflections on nature, routine, and silence gradually reveals something far more disturbing. The lake watches. The town changes. The narrator insists on harmlessness, even as the truth begins to surface.

This debut poetry collection blends:

  • Psychological suspense
  • Unreliable narration
  • Literary poetry and prose
  • A chilling slow-burn reveal

There are no graphic scenes. No loud confessions.
Only a voice that never raises itself, even when it finally tells you everything.

Perfect for readers who enjoy psychological thrillers, dark literary fiction, and poetry that lingers long after the final page.

Deadline: A Horror Story Told in Poems

What an Artist Finished Before Morning…

An artist stays back alone in a family house, racing against a deadline that cannot be moved.

As the night deepens, the house begins to change.
Lights flicker. Silence stretches. Fear settles in slowly, then all at once.

Told hour by hour, through a blend of prose and poetry, Deadline follows a single night where creation becomes compulsion, and survival depends on finishing the work. What begins as isolation turns into obsession, and what feels like haunting blurs into something far more unsettling: the mind under pressure, pushed beyond its limits.

As the hours pass, the house itself becomes the canvas. Every room fills with meaning, terror, and intention. By morning, nothing is untouched, least of all the artist.

Was there something in the house that night?
Or did the true horror come from within?

Deadline is a psychological horror story about art, ambition, and the quiet violence of expectations. It explores the cost of creation, the myth of suffering for greatness, and the fear of being unfinished, told through lyrical prose and haunting poems that linger long after the final page.

This is not a story about monsters in the dark.
It is about the ones that wait for you to keep working.

riya bhorkar
horror novel

The Flyover

No one ever asks what a road takes—only where it leads.

For ten years, the Eastern Flyover has been just another road, a stretch of concrete carrying people from one destination to another.

But beneath its surface, something has been waiting.

When a series of strange disappearances begins to unfold around the flyover, each incident appears unrelated at first: a missing passenger, an abandoned vehicle, a vanished pedestrian, a bus that arrives empty. No bodies are found. No answers emerge. The city moves on, as it always does.

Until the count begins.

As the missing cases grow and an unsettling pattern emerges, a chilling truth starts to surface, one tied to a long-forgotten accident buried in silence years ago. A tragedy that was never acknowledged. A story that was never allowed to be told.

Now, the road remembers.

The Flyover is a haunting, atmospheric horror novel about grief, injustice, and the stories that refuse to stay buried. Blending emotional depth with psychological tension, it explores what happens when silence becomes a crime, and memory becomes a form of vengeance.

Because some places don’t just lead you forward.

Some places take something from you.

Riya Bhorkar (author)

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