About The Banerjee Codex
The Banerjee Codex is where I send the stories that refuse to stay quiet worlds shaped by ash and winter, characters who carry their wounds like relics, and intimate moments that sit a little too close to real life. This is a home for original fiction, ongoing series, and narratives that leave you slightly altered by the time you reach the end.
Here you’ll find serialized projects like The Ashen Testament, Frost Psalms, Harmonic Trilogy, Listening Dark, alongside standalone short fiction, seasonal experiments, and the occasional literary reflection. Some pieces lean toward fantasy and magical realism; others remain firmly grounded in the mess of the everyday. All of them are preoccupied with interior lives grief, longing, nostalgia, love that arrives late, and the strange, imperfect ways people try to heal.
If you care less about content and more about sentences that bruise a little, this might be your corner of the internet.
What you’ll receive
Serialized fiction, released in carefully paced chapters, meant to be lived with over days and weeks rather than consumed in one sitting.
Standalone short stories that experiment with form, mood, and voice from quiet winter hauntings to close, psychological portraits.
Essays and notes on books, storytelling, and the craft obsessions that sit behind the fiction.
Most pieces are written to be read in one sitting and remembered long after.
Why subscribe
Subscribing means you don’t have to search for anything. New chapters and stories arrive in your inbox, in the order they’re meant to be read. You’ll also have full access to the archive, so you can move through older series, seasonal projects, and past experiments whenever you choose.
If you read on your phone or tablet, the Substack app offers a clean, ad-free experience, with audio versions available for select pieces.
The community
This isn’t a massive, anonymous audience. It’s a small, serious circle of readers who care about character, feeling, and the slow work of building fictional worlds night after night. In the comments, people trade reactions, theories, and personal echoes what a scene stirred, which line stayed, where they recognized themselves.
By subscribing, you’re not just following a newsletter. You’re stepping into an ongoing conversation about how stories carry our damage, our hope, and everything in between.
A note from the writer
I’m Abhishek Banerjee. The Banerjee Codex is a home for original fiction, serialized stories, and quiet narratives that unfold over time. Some pieces arrive whole. Others return in fragments, asking to be remembered. This publication exists to hold those stories, and the silences between them.
This publication is the place where the pages in my head finally have somewhere to live. For years, most of this stayed quietly in notebooks and private files. Now it lives here, in public, with you.
