Little did the world know in the December of 2019, that Life as we once knew it would change forever by March 2020. As the world shrunk into the size of a home, the faculty of the Department of English at the Central Campus of CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, decided to expand the horizons of our world through our words. Here is a collection of poems, stories, memoirs and musings that captures a fleeting moment in history that will remain embedded in memory. From the anguish of raging against machines, feeling trapped in a glass jar like a five tentacled octopus, discovering the self, unlocking truths, developing faith, finding love, questioning the inevitable to hoping to find answers amidst the labyrinth of doubts - this book freezes and liberates these expressions for the present generation of readers and for the ones to come. This collection unlocks our tales of the Lockdown. Welcome to Locktales...