Debdutta Pal has one foot toeing reality, and another softly buried in fantasy.

Comfortably nicheless (because decision-making is tough), she’s continually on the hunt for inspiration, which she finds in Netflix shows, pop music, cat pictures, abstract art, and dead poets.

She loves a little bit of everything (but never so much to get attached), with notable exceptions such as pineapple on pizza or sports as an entertaining subject of conversation.

But she’ll finish a sports romance in one night, like dawn might kindle its pages. Her work has been published in Five Minutes, Lunae Literature & Review, Phil Lit Journal, Everscribe Magazine, and more. An unfiltered (unsteady) version of her can be found wandering the aisles of Substack.