No One Could Touch the Monolith for 60 Years—Then My Hand Made It Awaken | HFY | Sci-Fi Stories

No One Could Touch the Monolith for 60 Years—Then My Hand Made It Awaken | HFY | Sci-Fi Stories For sixty years the black Monolith in Dellacorra Canyon has turned aside every hand that tried to touch it. Four thousand one hundred and twelve cadets have rushed it, recited poetry at it, and swung gilded mallets at it, and every one of them has been gently shoved aside and handed a warm custard tart. Then a quiet human girl from a world where the trees bite arrives at Ixmarre Academy, thanks the rope wall before she climbs it, apologizes to the mud, and walks up to the stone on Touching Day with her hat in her hands. She knocks. The stone answers. This warm, funny, wide-angle story moves from the classroom to the barracks to the command office, following a gruff drill master who hides behind the equipment shed to hide his smile, a professor who has lost three pairs of spectacles, a quartermaster who is very tired of nutmeg, and a stiff inspector who has come to cut the mystery out of the canyon and ship it away. When a wall of flood water comes roaring down the dry riverbed on the day of the big march, the house under the stone has one question for everyone: will you ask? A cozy, clever tale about manners, humility, kindness and teachers who were secretly proud of their cadet from the very first day. If you enjoy underdog humanity stories, gentle humor and alien school adventures, press play and settle in. Subscribe for a new original story every week. #scifistory #alienacademy #humanity #monolith #wholesome #cozyscifi #audiostory #scifi #underdog #storytime