The Horror of Knowing
We found the object sticking out of the beach after the hurricane, exposed by the storm. It looked like obsidian.
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“We did tests. It’s bone.”
“Bone? But it’s black. And 6 feet tall.”
“At least.”
“So it’s from a whale?”
“No. Based on the DNA, it’s human-ish.”
“Ish?”
“We think.”
“But that’s insane. The longest human bone is the tibia. That would make the person over 20 feet tall!”
“It gets worse. We think it’s a distal phalanx.”
“Which is?”
“A finger bone.”
“Oh . . . We’ll need more than a shovel to excavate it.”
“Yeah.”
“Maybe we should just rebury it.”
I am a bit late to this week’s challenge but I squeaked in at the end. Even though it’s the week of Halloween, I decided to go with strange and eerie more than scary.
The Green-Walled Treehouse 
You have me thinking. If I ever found a bone, would I rebury it, or take it home for a paperweight?
The sky in Lisa Fox’s photo looks like a Maxfield Parrish painting.
I so enjoy your flash fiction David. Always gets me right to the bone. :),
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Strange and eerie, mission accomplished.
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We can never unknow
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Really enjoyed your story. Another chapter in human history unearthed (or is that unsanded?)
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“The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them.” -Genesis 6:4
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Dear David,
Now that’s just spooky. Hopefully these bones are ancient enough there isn’t a group of human-ish beings coming after them.
Hope all is well on your end.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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