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Weekly Contest #349
I couldn't enter where the light touched, so I descended into the shadowy part of the fishbowl.I'd crossed the black between the stars carrying nothing but the ashes of my own dead home. My kind had died. Fallen for their own wrath and they’d called it the Collapse. The skies were scorched to save the foundations from infestation. Suicide of the species to save the home, such that a new generation might spring forth, as life had sprung before. My kind had fouled its own paradise. Like the fishbowl below, it'd been a beautiful world. It wasn...
Weekly Contest #348
Through my bolted window I could see the Southern Cross hanging low on the horizon. Four bright points forming a kite, much like the ones I flew on southern France beaches as a child. But this cross was no toy. It was a promise that navigation remained possible if you learned to read different skies. The North Star had vanished, dropped below the curve of the earth when they brought me to this hemisphere. It was the first thing I taught myself to seek when the layers of reality began to shift.The skybox in Moscow overlooked the festival grou...
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