Monday 16 November 2020

103 Words: The Hole Searching Society

45% of holes have something in them.  I’ve crunched the numbers.  Often it’s history of some kind.  Treasures of many kinds.  So I assembled a team, began to search.

Maths geeks don’t normally do this sort of thing and it took a bit of getting used to.  Somethings, though, I’ll never get used to.


Our first body was so tiny, a baby, and so well preserved despite its ancient age.  I remember us sitting about, silently hovering over her, tears in our eyes, each imagining a different scenario that ended this way.  A life unlived until its death discovered and its story told.



Written for 
Flash! Friday from the following picture prompt (we were also asked to add a Fire Element (include a statistician) or Ice Element (include an optimist)) and had a word count limit of 103 words exactly.  


“Sampling Pit.” Atacama Desert, Chile. Photo by NASA Ames. Read description here.

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