A Novella About the Creation of the World

Constellation of Capricorn

by Evgeny Dranik

12/10/2025

"A Novella About the Creation of the World. Constellation of Capricorn"


In the beginning, there was only silence — a vast, unmoving darkness waiting to be shaped.

And from that silence emerged a solitary figure, neither human nor celestial, kneeling at the threshold of existence. Its smooth, horned silhouette rose like the first thought of the universe, a creature born from the tension between void and awakening.

Behind it, the newborn sky trembled with scattered stars.

Before it — an empty horizon that had not yet learned to carry light.

The being seemed to listen to something distant, something older than time itself.

It was the Keeper of Beginnings — the first witness of creation, the one who remembers what others have forgotten: that every world is born from a moment of loneliness, a moment when the universe bends inward and exhales itself into being.

The constellation of Capricorn glimmered faintly above, marking destiny with its ancient curve.Its presence whispered: Every creation requires sacrifice. Every dawn begins with a watcher.

And so the figure lingered on the edge of the cosmic window, neither stepping forward nor turning back — holding the fragile pause before existence ignites.

A moment suspended forever.

A novella written in silence.

The birth of the world.

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