THE PIT

                                BY: Gabe McCaskill

                                                               Out of The Desert It Came

 The “Pit”, is deeper than any crevice, canyon, or hole thus far recorded in history, as far as the history of pits goes. The scientist that discovered the Pit, Joseph Benshiemer, measured its depth and width and concluded that it was “a bottomless pit.” The best guess was that a tip of a plate of Earth’s crust snapped off and the tip fell into the abyss it uncovered, that was the consensus of our most educated minds. Gradually, pieces of Earth eroded from underneath the ground breaking away and falling into the belly of the mother of all rocks. Eventually the trees, plants, and dirt visible to the sun, unaware of their structures’ demise, slowly sank into the unknown, slowly and unknowingly consumed. There was no way to tell which earthquake, if any, caused the plates to break, perhaps it was a natural anamoly and this was a forthcoming of disasters to come. It would not be far fetched to believe that the Earth’s crust has an expiration date, that one day it will erode underneath us, and gravity will pull Earth’s own crust into herself imploding and leaving her tenants nothing more than space rubble. A thousand theories could not express the truth, and everyone has one, both a truth and theory. 

The nearest town to the Pit, was 10 miles away, it was a small town with no more than 300 residents, all of which had no idea of the Pit’s existence. The Pit was located in the middle of a field, on a property that was rarely visited, and when visited not visited for long. It was a parched dusty area that contained the visual likeness of both a desert and the surface of the moon. The dust was heavy there, either that or the air was too weak to carry it, for every step was more along the lines of stepping in water puddles rather than dirt. A desolate place neglected and spared of beauty or any promise of fruitfulness, a place that looked as if it were overlooked by all men and forgotten by God himself.