Gaia's Erosion: A Short Story

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Once, long ago; before our mother earth,Gaia, had started to flourish. She became sick, soon after she discovered she was with child. This angered the controller of the planets, Shaddai. Shaddai figured Earth would become too preoccupied with her kin to continue orbiting in perfect rotation along with the rest of the planets. So he set out to destroy her steadily growing life.

He sent giant asteroids, hundreds of miles long, hurtling towards her. He set her surface a blaze until, finally, he took one more hit at her until she broke. The enormous mass of celestial rock had torn Gaia from her child, Selene. Shaddai was satisfied, while Gaia fell into a deep depression, tears emerged from deep within her. Gradually, almost her whole body became

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