Sunday, April 19, 2026

The Cartographer of Dead Stars

I mapped constellations that no longer existed. Names burned off millennia ago, their light still arriving — ghosts of light reaching a dead observer. But I kept naming them. If the universe wanted silence, it would have to accept my labels. Tomorrow I will finish the atlas. Then I will become part of it.


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