This is short, odd Friday flash. Enjoy.
Gigantic diamonds dotted the landscape, as numerous as suns in the galaxy. The cocooning sand, polished to a fine edge by centuries of harsh winds, gleamed in the dawning light.
The grunting, sweating bodies of men swarmed over one especially large gem, six feet tall and three feet wide, tapering to narrow points at the ends. They wrapped it in soft rope and lifted it whole to the back of the truck.
The bottom of the diamond was covered in brown slime. No one paid any attention to it, not even when the muck stuck to the bottom of the workers’ boots. Not even when a tiny crack appeared in the diamond’s shell and a small, black eye peered out.
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Oh Noo! they should have been more observant! I get the feeling that whatever it is it’s not nice. ^_^
That diamond’s got it’s eye on you! Nice and creepy. But I’d never disregard slime on a diamond.
diamond is carbon and we are carbon life forms too, so why not? My flash story this week also involves gemstones!
And so it begins…
Good story!
oh yeah, I like it. You are of course going to be posting a part 2… aren’t you? 🙂
thinking about it!