“Time can heal everything—except the moment it stopped.”

In a small rain-soaked town, where clocks breathe and memory lingers in every tick, an old clockmaker named Elias Hale lives surrounded by the ghosts of time. His shop is filled with hundreds of clocks—each one still moving, except for one: the golden carriage clock, forever frozen at 3:17, the minute his daughter died.

For years, Elias has lived in silence, tending to his clocks as though they were prayers—until a stranger named Mira steps in from the rain, carrying a broken clock and a quiet grief of her own. As she learns the delicate art of mending time, Elias begins to rediscover what it means to live, to forgive, and to let the heart’s pendulum swing again.

Set against a backdrop of ticking clocks and endless rain, A Minute’s Silence is a hauntingly beautiful tale about grief, love, memory, and the fragile mercy of time. With lyrical prose and deep emotional resonance, Sathvik Namburu crafts a story that reminds us that even the quietest silences can hold the sound of healing.