Neanderthal Stories

In a green valley that has looked the same for ten thousand years, a Neanderthal quarry worker named Grug is eating his breakfast when strangers begin to arrive. They come through a seam in the air. They are taller than him, and louder, and warmer. They bring objects he has no words for and opinions he has not asked to hear. They call him neighbor. They mean it in much the same way a colonizer means to offer blankets and beads. These are the stories he tells about what happens next. Told in Grug's own spare, watchful voice, the pieces in this collection will span a single changing valley across a handful of years. A gourd appears on a flat rock and will not leave. A line forms at the watering hole for the first time in history. A shell necklace is worn, removed, worn again. A daughter bites a man she should not bite. A wife uses a word her husband has been waiting three weeks to hear her not use. Each story is the length of a morning coffee, and each morning will bring you on the journey of some specific thing going quietly wrong, or quietly right on the valley's voyage to gradual interdimensional gentrification. The stories are darkly funny. They are funny the way a kitchen is funny, the way a long marriage is funny, the way a man is funny when he has decided, against all available evidence, to keep finishing his breakfast. Scheduled release - About 1 per day for the week of April 5 through April 11, 2026. Then I will try to keep it up at 1 per week (or so) as I finish writing them.

Ms Jean M. Auel's best-selling book "The Clan of the Cave Bear" and "Earth's Children" book series is a beautiful depiction of our planet 35,000 years ago. Her six books brought me many hours of enthralled reading, at different times in my life. As I was reading Ms Auel's books, I would sometimes imagine life in our hunter-gatherer days. I would wonder how our world would be today if we had not discovered agriculture, and that old method of life had continued to today. But I suppose there is little chance of turning back; maybe our world today was always meant to be. Some years ago, I had the opportunity to visit "The Land of Painted Caves", in particular Les Ezies-de-Tayac in France, which I understand was the setting of the Caves of the Zelandonii, the people of Jondalar. The cave paintings at the Grotte de Font-de-Gaume were a sight to behold, and I could almost imagine myself as a part of Ayla's Donier tour. I still habour hopes of one day visiting the "Beran Sea" (known today as the Black Sea) and the adjoining peninsular, where Ayla was saved from death by Brun's clan, and she grew up loved by Iza and Creb. Till then, I decided to do the next best thing - to write my version of a story set near the "Beran Sea". This is a fan-fiction work - some characters are Ms Auel's creation and copyright, some are mine. Passages from various "Earth's Children" books are extracted as vignettes to preface my chapters. I hope you enjoy this short story, which I intend as a sort of tribute to Ms Auel. As a father of two daughters, thank you, Jean M. Auel, for bringing us Ayla, who continues to be an inspiration to girls everywhere, 35,000 years later. === This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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