Their Wonder Years: Vignettes
Copyright© 2025 by Tantrayaan
Prologue
When I started writing Their Wonder Years, I thought I was telling a heartfelt story about love, culture shock, and growing up far from home. But somewhere between the soul-searching and the sex, readers started asking: “Can we have more of the funny stuff? like the DMV misadventures.” Some readers felt that though the chapters were great, they didn’t quite belong in the main arcs-but were too hilarious to ignore. I may include some of the hilarity in some chapters that some readers may like to read in isolation without the other stuff in the chapter as well.
So here it is: Vignettes-a parallel stream of short, satirical, sometimes reflective episodes that live between the big turning points. They may disrupt the arcs, but they capture what so many readers love most: the awkward, chaotic, joyful absurdity of college life in Their Wonder Years. This one is for those who asked for more laughter, without breaking the flow of the main story.
Character Cast (The Core Chaos Ensemble)
Bharath – Newly arrived from India, full of dreams, hormones, and wildly inaccurate expectations about life in America. Somewhere between lost and legendary.
Jorge - Jorge is hilarious, dramatic, and proudly extra-and completely devoted to his equally chaotic girlfriend, Camila.
Ravi - Bharath’s roommate and fellow Indian overthinker. Smart, impulsive, and always in over his head-especially with his brilliant girlfriend, Nandita.
Tyrel - Laid-back but lethal with a one-liner. A smooth operator with a big heart, usually spotted next to his sharp-tongued, whip-smart girlfriend, LaTasha.
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