I understand the feeling. I think a majority of content creators on this platform do, to an extent. There's just not the audience there used to be and it's depressing. But it's also self-fulfilling, because here, our content creators are largely each others' audiences. So as time goes on and people disappear, it gets worse... and worse...
I hope to somehow help to change this, but I can't do that if I've disappeared the same as everyone else. Hypocrisy drive, engage... So, hopefully I will be paying a bit more attention from now on. We'll see what happens...
At any rate, I'm always happy to read something you've written, short or not. So if you find short stories a more suitable medium to work in, I'll be glad to read them... hopefully more promptly henceforth...
Thanks for the reply!
I do already know the ending...
Poor Caleb. Or Zuen. Or Ishtar. Or all of humanity. Or whichever combination of them you've seen fit to kill painfully, because I know it's someone...
Why do you think anyone has to die? They could all live happily ever after, for eternity...
On and on and on and on...
The only way you'll allow that is if they're in a state of constant anguish, begging pathetically, fruitlessly, for the eternally unachievable release of death. That's even worse.
(well, for them; it's actually better for me)