Sinai Botha

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“Fading Lights” by Sinai Botha

Submitted to Contest #121

(trigger warning: literary insinuation of abandonment and death)When the world was new, there was a lone god that loved the stars.The god had hung each and every one of those same stars in the sky with its own divine hands, carefully constructing artworks of great beauty that could be seen no matter where it turned its gaze.For thousands of years, the god wandered the earth beneath its feet with its eyes trained to the sky, too enamored by its own creation in the heavens to notice what it had created in the wake of its wandering. From the ve...

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Am a truly sub-par wannabe writer. Regardless, here's a quote I think about often and which motivates me that came from a meme I think: "One day, you will be face to face with whatever saw fit to let you exist in this universe, and you will have to justify the space you've filled. Are you proud of what you are going to have to say?" I often take prompts and pick them apart, like a fraying cloth, to see what I can do with it. I like interpreting prompts as something more than what it is on the surface.