Alternate Enigma

Recently, I read through my old writing notebooks looking for lost story ideas. While doing that, I came across the original idea I had for “Enigma.” Instead of a cube, the artifact was to be this bizarre sculpture with all kinds of branches and nobody would have a clue as to what it was. The story then was to end several hundred million years ago, where we find the object was made by an alien art student. It’s a giant penis. The student is threatened with expulsion from the school if he does...