The Withering Gaze of the Earth, by Emily worm Description: On an island where the world ended, away from the judgmental eyes of the world, a new god (your terrible mother) is waking up. Author Statement: The game is shorter than I had initially planned, as I got COVID right when I was starting to work on it, and lost several weeks recovering from that. Content warnings inside the game. About 10,000 words and four endings. System: Twine Entered In: Main Festival Tags: horror, supernatural, lesbian This story was entered in the 2021 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction. More info on the festival is available at http://www.springthing.net/