Stone huggers

Creative writing piece as told to Bill-on-bike.

The Stone Huggers were at it again. Not content with re-building Stonehenge overnight – and the world was still totally amazed at that. How could they shift the 20 ton Dolerite stones and so quickly? But even more extraordinary how could they shift the 25 or 50 ton Sarsen stones? It all happened the night before the Winter Solstice, seemingly in the dark as any use of bright lights would have surely attracted the attention of both the Stoneys and the police? Yes of course it is possible with modern machinery to shift the stones, but in complete darkness and silence?

The Stoneys were the enemies of the Stone Huggers. They hated them for re-building Stonehenge and for their public demonstrations of stone-hugging. In fact they were jealous of the attention the Stone Huggers received in the media but they were also more than a little frightened of them. Many a Stoney was heard to mutter something about the ‘dark arts’ when referring to Stone Huggers but never to their face.

This time the Stone Huggers had gone too far. It was one thing to be filmed hugging a standing stone and there were plenty of video clips on Wetube but it was another when they began to disappear. First they began to shake in a curious way rather like descriptions of St Vitus dance, or the early Quakers, but then their physical outline began to fade, become even ghostly and then disappear. To add to the challenge this presents no video footage of the event has been successfully obtained. Only the stone hugging and subsequent dancing is captured on video or film and then the film goes hazy.

Nobody knows where the Stone Huggers went. There have been no credible reports of a stone hugger returning although rumours abound that they have all migrated to Lamu, an island of the Kenya coast, to Santa Barbara in California or Alice Springs in Australia.