“The Last Muezzin”, Gwern2011-06-15 (fantasy)⁠:

Another tribute to Borges; you can be me when I’m gone.

This short story began as eien_meru’s “A crow shook down on me”. I saw it linked as a Borgesian story—my favorite kind—and thought I could do better. When I had finished, I re-read it and realized I had written a reply to another story that had horrified me, Ted Chiang’s story about the Book of Job & the theodicy: “Hell is the Absence of God”. (Also worth reading as a reply is Ken Liu’s “Single-Bit Error”.)