Twenty Five Days of Christmas Fic - for Laurose08

[spikesgirl58]

Title - A Solistice Christmas Tale
Rating - G
Genre - Sapphire and Steel and maybe DW and a little Curse of the Demon for good measure...

The prompt - Laurose asked for something that involved Stonehenge.  Hopefully this fits the bill!

They stood silent and silhouetted black against a winter sky just as they had for centuries.

Sapphire, tell me

Comments

[reapermum]

:~)

Love the icon as well.

And what's not to like about a people named after their beer mugs?

[spikesgirl58]

Heh - thanks! I agree with you! I wonder waht future gnerations would call us if they had to come up with a name for our current society...

[reapermum]

I read an account some years ago of an archaeological expedition sponsored by a Danish brewery. They added an extra unofficial layer to stratigraphy of the site because of their own midden on the top. They called themselves The Carlsberg Culture because of all the bottles supplied by their sponsor.

[spikesgirl58]

I'm always reminded of the movie, The Gods Must be Crazy. When archaeologist dig up our memories, I wonder if we will be remembered as a generation of computers, fast food, and the world's shortest attention span...

[laurose8]

Thank you for that great story! It's got everything. This is just such good S&S.

And I agree with reapermum about the icon, too.

[spikesgirl58]

Thank you! It was your prompt, after all. I'm so delighted that you enjoyed it and I had a good time researching it!

That's my winter plot bunny!

Merry Christmas!

[laurose8]

Merry Christmas!

Thanks, too, for letting the creature get back home all right. Where no one will ever believe him - "Only four limbs? No eyestalks? Riiight."

[spikesgirl58]

No worries.

I try not to harm any creatures if I don't have to. I'm still feeling bad about that moose!

[jkkitty]

Interest and nice bit of history.

[spikesgirl58]

Thanks!

[avery11]

This is great S&S! Frankly, I like them better in your stories than I do on screen.

PS: Is it really true that the monoliths at Stonehenge are warm, even on bitterly cold days? I have never heard that.

[spikesgirl58]

Ah, thank you so much! I am really humbled by your comments.

We actually haven't been to Stonehenge, but we visited a circle of stones in the Orkneys that predate Stonehenge and it was a bitterly cold rainy day and, yes, the stones were warm... it was pretty eerie. Then when we walked to the center of the ring, all the wind and rain stopped. Yes, it was a moment.