7 Letters to a Fairytale

About the Book

7 Letters to a Fairytale

Letters to the one who feels like a fairytale.

A boy lost in dreams, in paradoxes, and in the fairytale—Fictional Khan writes seven letters to Medusa, a symbol of majestic beauty with a mythological presence. But these are not merely letters. They are phases of a life, attempts to communicate the unsaid days spent with and without her, and the words he once thought he would say someday—a someday that never came.

As the letters unfold, Fictional Khan grows, while the boundary between dreams, imagination, memory, and reality becomes increasingly uncertain. He never fully accepts that he could be dreaming, yet he cannot find peace in reality either. His conviction becomes both his fortune and his curse.

Leon al-nas, the only eyewitness to the world Fictional Khan believed he lived in, brings another reality into question. What Leon witnessed does not entirely resemble the reality contained within Fictional Khan's letters.

Perhaps the letters hold memories. Perhaps they hold dreams. Perhaps they hold realities of their own.

Do not try to comprehend, Feel them.

Because for Fictional Khan, she was never merely a person.

She's a fairytale.

See through the lens of him , and you can then see everything before your eyes, you'll smell flowers and ashes , presence or absence, tears and rain , humans and fairies, fate and conviction
And perhaps, in the end, there are no answers—only questions.

About the Author 

Ali Khan is just a name among names, a composer among readers, a mind that happens to be a residence for Fictional Khan or perhaps simply an ordinary person. He grew up in a beautiful city surrounded by history and peace and is currently a learner of life and, certainly, a law student. His journey with words began in September 2019, although Ali hardly considers himself a writer. In his words, “This is not me who writes; I can never—it is Fictional Khan.” Fictional Khan is a persona who belongs to the nights, born somewhere between imagination, influence and conviction; for her to become a fairytale, perhaps he had to become Fictional Khan. Ali never plans what will be written—it happens when it happens. While Ali has always loved history, Fictional Khan seems to devour it, allowing mythology, memory and the past to find their way into his world. Ali loves reading more than writing: he reads while Fictional Khan writes. He does not particularly ask readers to understand Fictional Khan, because perhaps Fictional Khan never wanted to be understood. He asks only one thing of them: 'feel' And if Ali Khan were to leave his readers with a warning, it would simply be: “Never ever fall for eyes; if you do, you'll be falling forever.”