The Question by Johan Smits
February 8, 2025
“Like stained glass,” she answered, “born out of sand – or in other words: potentially unstable but refined. Possesses a nature that’s both translucent and ambiguous. Likes to flirt with light, with shadow, with endless change; at once radiant and diffuse, refracting and reflecting, imposing and fragile. Showing off a dazzling kaleidoscope of contrasting yet complementing colours, from smoky rose, envy green and blazing amber, to suicidal blue and melancholy yellow. Or, maybe, that’s just posturing, for sometimes there’s a retreat into the crepuscular monochrome of silver salts. Also: breaks easily.” She paused to reflect. “But what was your question again?”
Johan Smits is a writer of fiction who likes to explore ordinary people navigating through the no-man’s-land between the commonplace and the bizarre, and how it affects them. He also writes non-fiction in the form of literary travel stories and contributes to news and human-interest magazines.
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