Ancestor Stories

The stars were emerging in the twilight. Camp was deserted. Women, if you could yet name them such, were bathing infants at the river. The men had gone to strip a nearby mammoth carcass. Eve, as scientists would christen her, remained behind by arrangement with her lover. He would answer for his absence from the hunt later. She lay down and opened her legs. The idea of shaving those legs would have seemed ridiculous in th...

"I must've been fucking insane," I cussed, staring around the cavernous attic. "Why did I sign up for this?"  "This" was cleaning out my deceased mother's house. Large, traditional, and draughty, she'd bequeathed it to me. But, being a city girl, I'd decided to sell this country dwelling. After a morning of hard graft, broken fingernails, and filling a gigantic skip, what used to be my former home, was now nothing more th...