In response to Dr. Kuppernickel’s post on diamond planets at Mad Science, we received the greatest comment in the history of Entropy Squared.
This comes courtesy of one Nestor Santana:
Sounds like a twilight zone episode setting, maybe.
“Estelle loved diamonds more than anything in the world. Her natural beauty and a confident way with men came as early as soon as she became a woman. With the right type chasing after her, rich and vulnerable to women’s wiles, it was all she could to not pile up a lavish collection of necklaces, rings, bracelets, and all manner of assorted gold and diamond accessories. Even her phone had a real diamond studded case, complete with hello kitty branding.
“I just love how they shine, for me and they’re anything but cheap,” she would say. “It’s only right, I mean, look at me, diamonds are what I deserve.”
Then one day, on her way home after meeting with one of several admirers, she met Max. He was handsome and impeccably dressed with diamond cuff links, diamonds for buttons, diamonds where zippers should be, diamonds where they shouldn’t be. He would have been a tawdry mess to anyone else, but not to Estelle. Estelle saw a mine. Even his excessively bright smile spoke of a marvelous wealth, his smile brilliant although a touch unnerving.
It didn’t take long before he promised her the world, strangely enough she promised his world, though the wording of his whispers was not something Estelle would argue with, it was all laced with diamonds and “all the diamonds you’ll ever want or need” and that was just peachy by her.
Just a few hours into meeting her, Max gave her his hand and asked if she was ready to go, it seemed just a charming ribbing, a flirtatious jest, but when she tooks his cold hand there she was in an instant. A flash had overtaken her and her ears felt like someone had slapped their cupped hands over them. She was suddenly somewhere else, somewhere unlike anything she knew. Gasping for nothing in the harsh and oxygen deficient atmosphere, the land, hills, and towering spires all around her glimmered as only diamonds do, all of it spun in on her awareness but only for a second. Her vision went quickly red and an excruciating pain shot through every inch of her. Her body started in on itself with the weight of gravity and environment crushing violently against her.
Max stood there, seeming taller somehow. What was once his edges began to fan out in crystalline trenches like new frost on a leaf. “It’s all you ever wanted…” he said, his voice quickly twisting from a familiar, soothing baritone, to an electronic screech, echoing in on itself hundreds of times and sounding suddenly like everything in a nightmare.
The last thing Estelle realized through the pain and the ravage of the diamond world on her frame was Max’s smile, behind him the long shadow of a massive, living diamond creature was descending on her as it grew longer, wider, and brighter and yet darker all the same.
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This comes courtesy of one Nestor Santana:
Sounds like a twilight zone episode setting, maybe.
“Estelle loved diamonds more than anything in the world. Her natural beauty and a confident way with men came as early as soon as she became a woman. With the right type chasing after her, rich and vulnerable to women’s wiles, it was all she could to not pile up a lavish collection of necklaces, rings, bracelets, and all manner of assorted gold and diamond accessories. Even her phone had a real diamond studded case, complete with hello kitty branding.
“I just love how they shine, for me and they’re anything but cheap,” she would say. “It’s only right, I mean, look at me, diamonds are what I deserve.”
Then one day, on her way home after meeting with one of several admirers, she met Max. He was handsome and impeccably dressed with diamond cuff links, diamonds for buttons, diamonds where zippers should be, diamonds where they shouldn’t be. He would have been a tawdry mess to anyone else, but not to Estelle. Estelle saw a mine. Even his excessively bright smile spoke of a marvelous wealth, his smile brilliant although a touch unnerving.
It didn’t take long before he promised her the world, strangely enough she promised his world, though the wording of his whispers was not something Estelle would argue with, it was all laced with diamonds and “all the diamonds you’ll ever want or need” and that was just peachy by her.
Just a few hours into meeting her, Max gave her his hand and asked if she was ready to go, it seemed just a charming ribbing, a flirtatious jest, but when she tooks his cold hand there she was in an instant. A flash had overtaken her and her ears felt like someone had slapped their cupped hands over them. She was suddenly somewhere else, somewhere unlike anything she knew. Gasping for nothing in the harsh and oxygen deficient atmosphere, the land, hills, and towering spires all around her glimmered as only diamonds do, all of it spun in on her awareness but only for a second. Her vision went quickly red and an excruciating pain shot through every inch of her. Her body started in on itself with the weight of gravity and environment crushing violently against her.
Max stood there, seeming taller somehow. What was once his edges began to fan out in crystalline trenches like new frost on a leaf. “It’s all you ever wanted…” he said, his voice quickly twisting from a familiar, soothing baritone, to an electronic screech, echoing in on itself hundreds of times and sounding suddenly like everything in a nightmare.
The last thing Estelle realized through the pain and the ravage of the diamond world on her frame was Max’s smile, behind him the long shadow of a massive, living diamond creature was descending on her as it grew longer, wider, and brighter and yet darker all the same.
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