Micah 4:3

lbonanomi · Post by **lbonanomi** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:55 am

The mine-laying robot rolled forward a half-meter across the dusty landscape and halted; its auger-arm drilling down and retracting. Another payload was ejected from an internal hopper into the earthen void. The ‘bot rolled onward, an under-slung plow scraping camouflaging topsoil over the subterranean delivery.

Sunlight glinted off the robot’s age-clouded solar panels, catching a nearby child’s eye. Locals considered ‘Micah 4:3’ an odd name for a tractor model, but it was the mysterious engine’s only marking. It labored silently, planting potatoes in the fields of the war-widowed and lost-limbed like a man drowning his guilt with penitent toil.

ROU Killing Time · Post by **ROU Killing Time** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:37 am

Spoiler:

Lot of compound words. Brain not sure if it's stylistic or a bit jarring (or both.)

Quite liked the drabble, though.

strawman · Post by **strawman** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 2:12 pm

Tomato juice, worstershire, and a raw egg for those jarring compound words, ROU.

Great drabble. However, Micah 4:3 can't be the original machine name, as it was repurposed.

eric_marsh · Post by **eric_marsh** » Thu Feb 23, 2012 2:48 pm

uncre8d1 · Post by **uncre8d1** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:19 pm

strawman wrote: Great drabble. However, Micah 4:3 can't be the original machine name, as it was repurposed.

Maybe the original name was Micah 1:4 - "The mountains melt beneath Him,and the valleys split apart, like wax before a fire, like water rushing from a steep place."

bell · Post by **bell** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 8:56 pm

Like. Like a lot.

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