When explorers found out that Earth was flat after all, they mounted expeditions beyond the edge to climb the gears of Heaven.
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Some brought back stars and pieces of the sun and installed them on towers, to grant their cities eternal day.
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Others stayed. Their houses adorn the steel beams that carry the sun and watch down onto earth, which now looks like the night sky once did.
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This premise resulted in way too many ideas to post to twitter:
synkretie.net/writings/world
I think I shall do this for more ideas from now on.
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/cc @_100101890
riffing on some of those themes of "time and its discontents" here.
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