Six Word Fridays - Rock

This post is to blog hop Six Word Fridays - Rock. Others posts for this blog hop can been seen by clicking the link.  The rules are pretty simple.  Each line must be six words.  A post can be one line or many lines, but only six words per line.

Desert in Southeastern Oregon

The Rock Left a Fatal Impression

The rock was one of many.

We were carefully lifting each one.

We hoped to find a snake.

Soon the census would be done.

Others in the group were experienced.

They could easily identify the snake.

I was invited to go along.

I wish my hands didn't shake.

Then I saw the ringed snake.

I promptly dropped the desert rock.

It broke the rare serpent's spine.

The census included one snake, deceased.

I proclaimed, "the fault is mine."