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Sunday, February 19, 2012

The Archeologist


Well, that girlfriend alluded to in previous posts broke up with me, but it was only a two week relationship so I'm fine really, though she was nice, what a pity. Anyway, trying new epilepsy medication this weekend and I had an incident yesterday, though the meds didn't hit me as hard so I managed to get out a story today, though I'm not sure how well it turned out.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy!

The Archeologist

         She led her fellow scientists into the several hundred year old ruins. All the scientists were nervous that the ruins would collapse around them. The ruins had been buried under the new city above, with the walls of the ruins being a fragment of the foundation. The scientists had the crawl beneath the pieces of the ruins to move on.
        The archeologist smiled, with dirt in her blonde hair. She wiped sweat off her forehead while keeping her flashlight in hand. She was so eager. If the relic was in here, she would be famous. She could hardly contain her excitement. She thought of the magazines she would be on, all just for finding the relic in these ruins.
        She saw a bit of loose soil. After digging at it a box with letters in a language she could hardly understand fell out. She held the box, resisting the urge to scream in delight. She couldn't read the letters on the box. But she knew this had to be it. It had to be the relic. So she opened the box and there it was, the relic from those old ages. She pulled out a twenty-first century cellphone; and considered herself the luckiest person on the planet.

2 comments:

  1. It's a shame the gf took things so seriously when all YOU wanted to do was hang out together. Don't sweat it though, I predict many girls in your future. As to the story, I would revisit the sentence: The archaeologist smiled, with dirt in her blonde hair. Makes it sound like she's happy she has dirty hair. :} I understand the meaning you wanted to convey, though. You might want to consider: The archaeologist smiled, shook the dirt out of her blonde hair. Again, this is a great visual scene with a nice twist. Well done!

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    1. Thanks for input on that sentence, maybe I change that in later drafts.

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