A story of fractured timelines, uncertain truths, and the collision of myth and science.
What if the blue skin of Hindu gods wasn't just symbolism, but the echo of a physical phenomenon, like the Doppler Effect, glimpsed and misunderstood across centuries?
The Skin of Time follows scattered lives entangled by a rupture in space-time: a crack in reality torn open by an experimental gravitational weapon that unveils the fabric between worlds and the beings in it.
In 1990s India, a child turns blue, and his family, aided by strange and supernatural allies, must flee a breach that seems to follow them through time. Elsewhere, bodies drift in orbit, fresh yet frozen for millennia. Clone soldiers melt in agony, and the family unravel under the weight of inexplicable loss.
In 1938 Manchukuo, a Japanese teenager erupts in black fire, killing prisoners, guards, and even his father. Gifted to a secret Nazi expedition to Tibet, he becomes something more than human. A weapon and a prophecy.
Told through multiple voices and shifting timelines, this novel blends science fiction, magical realism, and cosmic horror to suggest that our oldest stories may not be relics of the past, but fragments of something still unfolding.