The Keeper of Stories Saraswathi

'Gayathri has a chemistry chapter she can't face, a group chat handing out achievement badges like Pokémon cards, and a mother who won't just let her scroll past all of it. So every night for a while, instead of the usual fight about homework, Amma tells her a story instead, about a river that used to have a temper, that argued with priests and asked the kind of questions nobody had an answer ready for. The river becomes speech. Then it becomes the thing that fights back when people stop bothering to ask why. By the time the stories run out, Gayathri isn't looking at her textbooks the same way. Nor will you.