“Based on a
true story.”
Aesop* #quote
Hangin' with CJ today. Hopefully we aren't interrupted by some
aliens and their wars among the stars. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
Ancient Age
Comes Before Beauty
“We look the
same, the jewelry that is our home is the same. Why are the price
tags beneath us different?” The young man-made diamond asked the
several million year old diamond in the other piece of jewelry in the
same case.
The old diamond
replied in the tongue of stone, “It is true our bodies are the
same. We share the same shining beauty that humans admire. But I have
learned something over the many, many years I have lived. Before I
became placed in this jewelery the humans traded me. They have
strange wants that are very difficult to understand. We are the same
yet you were manufactured. I am a creation of nature. I have an age
you do not. They desire that.”
“Age? Why
does that matter to them?” The young stone asked, annoyed at his
apparent inferiority, despite the fact he probably had less flaws
than the natural diamond.
“I can only guess young one. I have a few guesses, but maybe in
another few million years I will know why.”
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