Working on a new project called, "The Curious Case of Father Time"
It's a science fiction/supernatural thriller about an often forgotten but curious character, Father Time.
We all are familiar with Father Time as he represents an old year coming to a close and passing on time to the New Year's baby.
Well what would happen if Father Time didn't pass time along? What would happen to the New Year? Would there be a New Year or would time cease to exist all together?
This book attempts to answer that question as I bring to you the subject of the Timekeepers. Here is an excerpt of the story....
He was a direct descendant of Adam and Eve, although his name was forever lost to history. His name was Hem and he lived for an astounding ten thousand years. He was brought into this world for one purpose: to keep track of time.
Every moment of his life was dedicated to tracking and measuring time. Because of his position, he was very important to mankind. He took many wives and bore many children. They became a clan known as the Timekeepers. They mostly lived away from civilization. Because of their rumored special powers, many would not dare cross them, for they had the ability to make time stop.
Some of the Keepers used this ability to their advantage and became very prosperous as a result of it. Others used their powers for the greater good.
Hem could have lived another ten thousand years, but it simply was his time to go.
He wrote the first records of history and kept track of how many times the sun rose and sat in the sky. When God created the greater light to rule the day and the lesser night to rule the night, Time was born.
It was he that first used time as an instrument to teach the others. He became the time keeper who lived for ten thousand years. His work was too important. There had to be others to continue his life’s mission.
Keep track of time.
As he closed his eyes for the last time, the Others gathered around him. They vowed to continue this important work, no matter what the cost. They were mostly nomadic in nature. They assisted in the creation of the Sumerian and Mayan calendars, the sundial, clocks, and other timepieces. The Timekeepers have had their hands in measuring time since the beginning.
They roamed the Old World for the Chosen One year after year. They lived all over the world, assisting Father Time in his mission to find the New Child or the Chosen One to bring in the New Year. Without this annual event, time would cease to exist.
They lived as a cult might, never revealing their identities to Outsiders, for it was too dangerous. Inside the Cult, there was the Family and in that family there could only be one Father Time. At the end of his reign he would pass it on to a male child within the Family. That child would go on to become Father Time for the next Generation to come.
It was to be this way for thousands of years.
