The Moon Metal - Story Book
The Moon Bled Metal
Garrett P. Serviss
1900
The Moon Bled Metal
When Gold Failed
Gold became cheaper than iron.
The Moon Bled Metal
When Gold Failed
Antarctic abundance emptied vaults and shattered the world's measure of value.
The Moon Bled Metal
When Gold Failed
As commerce died, desperate nations gathered for one final answer.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Beautiful Bargain
That answer arrived on a card glowing rose and violet.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Beautiful Bargain
Dr. Syx offered enough artemisium to restart every mint.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Beautiful Bargain
His price sounded brutally simple.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Beautiful Bargain
He would control the world's money from beneath Grand Teton.
The Moon Bled Metal
The False Mine
Under Grand Teton, rainbow furnaces revived trade and crowned Dr. Syx a savior.
The Moon Bled Metal
The False Mine
Andrew Hall discovered ore cars circling beneath the furnace and returning untouched.
The Moon Bled Metal
The False Mine
The entire mine was theater.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Invisible Beam
That deception left one question burning.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Invisible Beam
Scorched birds fell across Grand Teton with artemisium coating their feathers.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Invisible Beam
Andrew Hall climbed above the mill and found a hidden mirror aimed skyward.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Invisible Beam
A blue kite crossed its invisible beam and burned into glittering dust.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Moon Bleeds
The glittering trail pointed straight toward the Moon.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Moon Bleeds
Andrew Hall rebuilt the machine and aimed his mirror at Tycho's white veins.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Moon Bleeds
Five silent minutes crawled past.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Moon Bleeds
Then the Moon bled rainbow metal into his waiting dish.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Face in the Scar
That molten drop broke Dr. Syx's empire.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Face in the Scar
Soon ten thousand machines stripped the Moon, and silver dust smothered fields.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Face in the Scar
Governments stopped the flood and ended every monopoly.
The Moon Bled Metal
The Face in the Scar
Years afterward, Andrew Hall saw Dr. Syx staring from the scarred Moon, as if human greed had given him a face.
The Moon Bled Metal
The End
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