Young Writers Society

Long ago before the creation of man there was a great glass palace in the sky made for all the gods of the earth. In the palace the gods would dance, sing, and feast on lots of food while admiring their creation of earth down below. The glass palace was so beautiful because the sun’s rays would strike the surface of the glass and create a plethora of colors in the sky above earth. The creatures of earth loved the palace and the colors it created as much as the gods did. The colors in the sky even out shone the magnificent colors of the stars. Marveling at the palace on earth, the stars in the sky became jealous of its beauty and sent a meteor down to strike the glass palace and demolish it. As the meteor got closer to the earth it began to admire the palace and did not wish to destroy this wonderful creation that so many of earth’s creatures enjoyed. So instead the meteor decided to follow the palace around the earth watching it and reflecting light on it to see it shimmer in the night. The stars did not like this so they made the water fall in love with the meteor and reach upwards toward it, clawing at the meteor. When the waves began to reach for the meteor they hit the delicate and beautiful palace. This weakened the palace over time, each time the water reached it; it destroyed more of its beauty. Once when the waves clawed at the meteor it created gashes and craters in the meteor. Eventually the palace shattered into trillions upon trillions of very tiny pieces that fell into the waters below on earth. Once the waves hit the meteor it created gashes in it pushing the meteor and its orbit back farther away from earth. The gods of the earth were infuriated that their palace was ruined and that they could no longer admire earth together and the animals on earth became very sad. The gods then decided to permanently punish the stars by taking away their colors that they shine, making them only shine the color white so that they too will not be beautiful like the earth’s sky once was. Because the meteor decided to protect the palace in the sky the gods rewarded it by giving it control over the waves of the sea, and so the meteor became known as the moon. The pieces of the glass palace spread far throughout the seas below and over time the waves that the moon controlled and the water washed the pieces of the glass up on land and it became abundant on the shore, creating the beach. Once humans came along they called the glass on the beach sand. Each speck of sand on earth once was part of the beautiful palace in the sky which emanated colors across it. Thus this is how the beaches and the moon came to be.