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Bronte Tavener

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In the blackness

‘Begin re-entry sequence when ready.’The strange thing about space is that there is no light. That is untrue; there is light, but it’s not the right light. It’s not warm. And the light that does exist feels more threatening than providing. Light keeps Earth alive; light here just burns and burns and burns. There is the sun, there is what the moon reflects from the sun, there are the scraps of dingy light within the satellite. The lights in here will fade, flicker on and off, flicker off and never on. But the sun will never fade, at least not...

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God's Creatures

Weekly Contest #347

It is easy, within such an influential period of man, to neglect what we once were, what we still are. To bury the primality of our existence beneath vain superiority, beneath a complex of humanity. Beneath invention, industry, structure. Beneath development, stereotypes, law. Beneath what we have created and what we have destroyed. Under our morality, our religion, our beliefs. In the depths of the ocean from which we have built our home. The animal we claim to be so far above, waits. We are after all, what we once were. God’s creatures. Th...

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