The Bloodstone
The meteorite had come from far away. During the thousands of years that it had spent ricocheting across the endless void of space, it has 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 through the planet’s atmosphere, the heat 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 then and man had not yet been born. And so, the stone went unobserved.
The Bloodstone is published in Different Roads (due to be published in February 2010). To find out more, take a look at… Different Roads
