When the Sky Refuses
The world does not end in flames or ice.
It finishes up in perplexity.
One regular day, every clock on earth loses sync. Noon slams midnight. Shadows crawl the wrong way on the floor. And a crack opens dark, vibrant, breathing in the heavens.
A weary lecturer in myths and morals, Dr. Mara Okoye is suddenly thrust into a world where the laws of time disintegrate and old myths awake. Starting out as a disastrous lecture, what starts becomes a voyage across a shattered planet with communities linked to shattered hours, cities bending into rivers of light, and libraries where the words on the page reinterpret themselves.
Mara must decide what mankind should hold onto as the finish approaches with just a handful of companions: a defiant teenager who bottles songs in glass jars, a truth-hungry journalist, and a preacher convinced the crack is prophecy. Survival? Salvation? Or something odd: the conservation of meaning itself.
In a story combining speculative mystery, mythical adventure, and serious philosophy, When the Sky Refuses questions: If the world should end, what really merits saving the body, the soul, or the narrative?