A funny story inspired, in a way, by a customer I used to have at a pub I used to work in.
The Bloodstone
The Meteorite had come from far away. During the thousands of years that it had spent ricocheting across the endless voids of space, it had seen much and knew almost all the history of the universe.
Over the years, countless collisions had whittled it down in size until it was now not much larger than a small family house, although houses had yet to be dreamed of on the blue and green planet that it was hurtling towards.
As it passed though the planet’s atmosphere, the heat from the planet’s atmosphere caused the stone to shrink even further and gave its surface a reddish glaze.
If anyone on the planet had been watching the Southern sky that night, they would have seen a faint streak of grey, almost hidden amongst the distant stars. But, the Earth was still young and man had not yet been born. And so, the stone went unobserved.
To find out what happened next you’ll need to buy a copy of Different Roads – available from Lulu.com from 1st August 2011.
