Silicone Skin

What happens when love is designed?

Silicone Skin is a near-future story about intimacy in a world where affection can be engineered, purchased, and optimized.

When a man brings home Leo, an advanced companion android built to desire, respond, and remain, what begins as comfort and control slowly slips into something far less certain. The relationship unsettles the boundaries between performance and sincerity, ownership and choice, safety and freedom.

This is not a story of rogue machines or distant dystopia. It is an intimate exploration of loneliness, longing, and the quiet negotiations we make to feel chosen. As Leo's presence grows more complex, the question at the heart of their bond becomes impossible to ignore: what does it mean to love when love itself is designed?

Tender, sensual, and unsettling, Silicone Skin blends speculative fiction with emotional realism. Its world echoes the literary futurism of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, while its intimacy recalls the aching closeness of Call Me By Your Name. There are traces of classic decadence too, as desire, autonomy, and identity blur together.

At its core, Silicone Skin asks a single lingering question:

If love is built into something, does that make it real, or does it make it impossible?