Geosapiology: a brief history of geogenesis, the Stones, and the Theory of Appeasement — Part Two
By K.A. Wiggins
The Stones rose and feasted and formed of themselves fortresses in war zones across the world all in the same year, though not on the same day or month. Or, if they did, some of those first infant edifices must have been lost to unusually decisive bombardment before taking root. Their rate of growth was observed to slow only in the absence of usable materials, both during the first flush of spontaneous generation, and throughout their subsequent long, slow, evidently ageless existence.
Initial observations were variously derided as AI-generated fake news, guerilla marketing stunts for some new film or game, or unusually large-scale pop-up art installations in protest of war or genocide or ethnic cleansing or extractive capitalism or some such. Prefab fortifications for a military reluctant to take the credit, or refugee housing proof of concept, were other early suggestions that soon proved to fall short of the stark if implausible reality.
In some locations, the Stones fully and immediately shut down armed conflict. Aggressors came under international scrutiny due to the strange phenomena, or found themselves physically cut off from their targets, or simply were more curious about the sudden inorganic interlopers than determined to finish what they’d started.
Then someone thought to ask what had happened to all the bodies.
K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) is an award-winning Canadian speculative fiction author who can't stop inserting monsters (and magic) into local landscapes.
Best known for her gothic-dystopian YA+ Dark Fantasy series Threads of Dreams, in which a macabre (neurospicy) misfit storms monster-infested, post-eco-apocalypse Vancouver, her quietly subversive works have also appeared in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction, Brave New Weird: Best New Weird Horror, Lightspeed Magazine, Strange Horizons, The NoSleep Podcast, Fantasy Magazine, and Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, among others.
Kaie spends her days with books on the traditional unceded territory of the K’omoks and Pentlatch peoples, writing, working as a school library tech, teaching as a Creative Writing for Children Society educator, and leading the Children's Writers & Illustrators of British Columbia Society. Find her at kawiggins.com.
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