2023 Year-end Post
I only had one piece out this year, which makes for a year-end post that is short and sweet.
Worlds pop into existence, composed by clicking keyboards or in spraying foam on waves of thought; tucked away in spells, algorithms, entangled particles, recipes; evoked by waving wands; sketched by twirling ley-line brushes; assembled by spinning quantum mundistructors. They’ve been doing it for eons.
But recently, there has been a pause.
“I’ve lost it,” he says to her, despondent. “I haven’t been able to make a new world in sixteen terakernels.”
“Same. I haven’t conjured one in ages.” The barest wisp …