The Soulcore

By James K. Ngubiah

The Soulcore is a science fiction short story. It is mainly intended to delight and entertain; and it is suitable for both youth and adult readers. An extra-terrestrial from the Andromeda galaxy (A distance of 2.2 million light years from our milky way) comes to visit the earth carrying with him “the most precious jewel in the universe.” However, at the gateway into the earth, he is met with arrogance, greed and deception. He is defrauded of the invaluable jewel and virtually expelled. But the hoggish terrestrial fraudster does not know what it is he has taken upon himself for the jewel is in fact not just another precious stone. Simple human error brings him great remorse; and soon Saul is converted to Paul and cast into a crater. From there on, the motif of loss and search get the upper hand.
So who are Mtembezi Ulimwengu and Mwangalizi Thabiti? What does the Soulcore symbolize? What is the crater? What is the human race looking for? Overall, is the Soulcore a story of hope or despair?

• Language: English
• Publisher: James K. Ngubiah
• Release date: Jul 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301703944

James K. Ngubiah

Born in the central highlands of Kenya, James Ngubiah enjoys writing fiction as a hobby. He is the author of “The Love Birds” in print. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya.He is a Financial and Micro-enterprise consultant in profession.

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Copyright 2013 James K. Ngubiah

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The fox knows many things, the hedgehog one big one.

Archilochus.

(Greek Poet)

Chapter 1

A galaxy is a congregation of countless stars held together by gravity in the universe. Stars have many planets that orbit them. The galaxy that contains our sun and planet earth is called the Milky Way. It is the large luminous band of stars and glowing dust that we see stretching across the sky on a clear night. We see the Milky Way from within, since we are part of it, and as a result it is all around us, and we can never see it all from any place. It would be more like trying to see the forest from within it.

Beyond our milky way there are millions of other galaxies. One of the galaxies close to us is called the Andromeda galaxy and it is roughly 2.2 million light years from the Milky Way. It is dimly visible to the unaided human eye, appearing as a small oval patch in the northern sky, on November evenings. The Andromeda is also called the chained lady galaxy because it looks like a lady who is bound in chains.

It was in one of those far-flung lands, one bright and tranquil morning inside the Andromeda galaxy, that along time ago, a poor herd’s boy was grazing a herd of dinosaurs. The twin suns were blazing hot above the forested horizon and Mlinzi Mvumbuzi was already feeling hot and sweaty. So he started looking for a shady tree to shelter him from the blazing heat. When he finally found the shade and sat down to rest, he also saw lying close to his feet, a piece of shiny crystal rock.

He took it in his hand and was shocked by its great weight and