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Kain Stockton
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Speculative Fiction Writer🖋
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📍London
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'All Suns Must Kill Their Darlings'

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The book I pray from was grown from your light. Psalms on palm leaves progressing to wood. Inks dried in paltry rays through slatted window filaments. I breathed in sawdust like it was the cosmos, my viscera fast becoming pulp. Indelible testaments stained on the thoroughfare of my bones. Interspersed thermal pulse. I never did fully taste the flesh of summer. Dog-eared and toothless. Bed bound with scored spine. I sacrifice my biological processes to sate you, for you pay me back in ephemeral gold. Singing in silence for your return. The eyeless monk. Spilling more blood if I must. Outside, you shine, but inside the cannibal tends to itself. Life collapses and my pages burn. All suns must kill their darlings.
November 18, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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"Every day before this one had been leading up to waking the dead.
Beyond the scope of science and mathematics, there are very few certainties in the universe aside from dying, and today we are on the cusp of being launched into a very uncertain world. "

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November 18, 2024 at 7:56 AM