RELEASE DATE: 15 October 2022
A simple star? Dead easy to make. Only two pieces of paper, less than twenty steps… Yep. Literally anyone can make a star. Nothing can go wrong.
…Right?
A pair of cheeky micro stories about the perils of crafting and home-making when you’re an immortal, all-powerful being.
(Never mind the explosions. We can always restart the universe.)
How To Make A Star/The World Ended
How To Make A Star
(Annotated by Yours Truly with Helpful Hints to avoid certain destruction of the universe and other Regrettable Incidents.)
‘Make a classic, five-pointed star with two pieces of origami paper and a piece of tape!’
Easy, anyone can make a star. It says so right in the book.
One piece of blue paper shimmering like the summer sky. One piece as black as winter night, cold and limitless.
1 – Using a square piece of paper, turn it so it looks like a diamond. If the paper is colored on one side, have the colored sided facing up.
The black paper sits on the desk like a sulky, teenage blackhole, radiating malevolence and rejection of all authority. (In retrospect this should have been A Clue.) There. One step closer to stars burning brightly overhead.
2 – Fold two tips together to form a tidy triangle. The color should be hidden.
Absolutely no problems there. Triangle ACHIEVED. Black and sinister looking because the paper is black on both sides, but very triangular.
Two acute angles. One obtuse. With a certain, rugged hint of mountain. This is a triangle with purpose. With a destiny.
3 – Take the left edge of the triangle and fold it to the top edge.
The directions said nothing about this, but humming The Grand ‘Ol Duke Of York seems appropriate.
(At the time. Perhaps something by REM would have been more appropriate.
Let the record show that the end of the world was not due for at least another millennia and therefore Yours Truly cannot be blamed for any unplanned events hastening that great and dreadful day.)
4 – Turn the paper over.
Look! Almost done. This is almost a star! It’s so exciting. It looks even darker than before.
5 – Carefully bring the left corner to the right corner to fold the triangle in half…
This feels unexpectedly heavy. Was it supposed to be heavy?