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Two More Minutes, Please?: How far will you go for love?

“How far will you go for love?

On the sun-bleached coast of Odisha, India, a boy who speaks in flowers meets a girl who paints in silence. Their connection is instant, wordless, and over too soon. When she leaves, she takes a piece of his world with her, and he spends years wondering if love can survive in memory alone.

Years later, in a foreign gallery, Anwesh sees a painting that stops time: the same flower he once showed her, signed with her initials. What follows is a journey across continents and decades. From the tides of Odisha to the rain-washed streets of Paris, the scenic rooftops of Lisbon, and the quiet gardens of Kyoto, two souls chase the fragile echo of a bond that exists in the space where memory and love overlap.

But time is not kind. It blurs faces, bends truth, and tests how long love can wait before it withers. As their paths cross once more, Anwesh and Élise must confront the one question that began it all: when life gives you only a few more moments with the one you love, will two more minutes be enough?

Two More Minutes, Please? is a sweeping tale of love, loss, art, silence and the relentless pull of memory, a story that asks not just how far we go for love, but how long love waits for us to return.

Arpan Prakash Sahoo

Arpan Prakash Sahoo was born and raised in Cuttack, Odisha. He holds a master’s degree in computer applications and works as a software engineer by day. But beyond his profession, he is an artist and a storyteller at heart, someone who finds poetry in the ordinary and beauty in the unseen. His fascination with art began long before his career in technology, and he has always believed that logic and creativity can coexist as expressions of God’s divine design.

A musician guided by faith, Arpan finds delight in worshipping and praising the Lord in his church. Outside of writing and music, he loves to read, reflect, and talk about life, faith, and all the things that make us human.

An old-school romantic, he believes and writes about love the way it once was: timeless, patient, and pure. His debut novel, Two More Minutes, Please?, is an extension of that reflection: a poetic exploration of love, loss, and the enduring beauty of memory.

For Arpan, writing is a way to slow down, to listen, and to remind the world that life itself is the greatest work of art, crafted, in every detail, by the hands of God.