My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi

Author:John Elizabeth Stintzi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
Published: 2022-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

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On july 2, as most of the Western world sent aid to the United States, stones that had been left in piles by tourists on the outskirts of the caldera of an extinct volcano in the Sahara Desert of Libya—Waw an Namus, the “Oasis of Mosquitoes”—began to animate themselves. The temperature at the oasis that day had skyrocketed to around 150 degrees Fahrenheit. The civil war in Libya had already kept the bulk of tourists and expeditions from going to the oasis, so nobody saw the rocks begin to roll from their places around the caldera, slowly coalescing into one massive pile of stones that had been touched by people from all across the globe.

The stones collected and conglomerated themselves to form the bones of a huge four-legged golem. It stood four stories tall. The desert sizzled, and as it did, the dark ash surrounding the volcano’s caldera—which stood in stark contrast to the rest of the golden Sahara—rose into the air and wrapped itself around the stone skeleton, filling in and smoothing out the shape.

If someone had been there to see it, it would have looked like huge clouds of dark insects flying over the hot, hot desert, only to land on the stone golem like a hive. The golem’s shape filled out into a final visage of a dark, massive creature that did not look like any other living thing, not really. Mostly because it did not have a head or a face.

Once the golem was made complete by the dark volcanic remains, it walked away from the oasis. The heat rose with it, turning the sand to glass under its feet, until eventually—in the middle of the Sahara, out of view of Waw an Namus—the golem stopped and punched its way into the liquefying sand, burrowing out of sight.

Under the desert, it moved like a dune shifting. Anyone who saw it would have assumed it was just a mirage caused from the heat dancing atop the sand.

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