Boneless

by Chandra Shekhar

A rare genetic disorder makes Kim Lee’s bones so brittle that a firm handshake can literally crush his fingers. In desperation, he signs up for a radical experimental procedure: full-skeleton replacement! Lee dreams that the alloy implants will give him Terminator-like powers, but will he even survive the surgery?

20 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 12, 2016

About the author

Chandra Shekhar came to the US from India in 1987 to study Artificial Intelligence. After spending 15 years developing technology for self-driving vehicles, facial recognition, and video surveillance, he switched to the less lucrative but more benign career of fiction writing. MOCK MY WORDS is his first novel. His second novel, UNLIGHT, imagines a planet-wide apocalypse that leaves the earth cold, dark, and lifeless. He is currently writing THIRST FOR POWER, which tells the intertwined stories of an idealistic young man, a scheming politician, a romantic professor of English, and an enigmatic social worker, set against a background of political, social, and climate change.

Chandra is also a prolific writer of short stories, flash fiction, and humorous verse. He is working on an illustrated collection of his shorter works titled Unintended Consequences, Illogical Extremes, and Other Ironies of Life.