Category Archives: Prehistory

PREHISTORY GRAND PRIZE WINNER – BETH TILLMAN: False Reporting

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The cave wall is covered with our story, but the little ones sneak in,
draw, and interfere.

One might think we kill to eat. We tried. Our stomachs revolted.

They just like making blood pictures with that red clay. But clubs
and animal death?

Ack, who will know the difference?

Beth is an estate planning attorney in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She has an M.A. in English from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and spends her spare time writing a blog at sideglimpses.blogspot.com and sorting through her tangible goods for lost earrings.

PREHISTORY – CATHERINE SEVENHUYSEN: Evolutionary Early Bloomer

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Olive the Ornithomimosaur was hurt, humiliated! A social outcast! She knew it wasn’t normal. She knew her friends would laugh.

Her mother had forbidden her to touch it. Olive would show her.

Olive stretched her tiny arms to her chin and yanked, and just like that, the feather was gone.

Catherine Sevenhuysen is an aspiring actor from Nanaimo, BC, and a proud Auntie to Calvin and Victor.

PREHISTORY – KRYSTYNA FEDOSEJEVS: Dinosaur Cycle

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One, two, crackle, crack, three, five, ten eggs snap open. Mother Sauropod watches her family emerge from a crevice in cooled molten rock.

They wiggle between ferns, over wooden debris, broken concrete. Past skeletal remains: “Homo sapiens,” the mother states.

Nearby lies a torn book cover, words “global warming” intact.

Krystyna Fedosejevs lives in Edmonton, Alberta. She writes and publishes poetry as well as flash fiction.

PREHISTORY – CRAIG HOLZSCHUH: Cavepeople’s Court

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“Steef, plead case,” said the judge.

“Girac keep cave security deposit. Me want it back.”

“Girac, what is defense?”

“You honor, he paint buffalo on walls! Look, I paint them to show court.”

“Judge, want add copyright infringement to suit. Girac unlegally reproduce Steef paintings,” added Steef.

“Verdict for defense.”

Craig has previously been published on fiftywordstories.com and in The Labyrinth.

PREHISTORY – ALISIA FAUST: The Breakup

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Groog no longer looked at Nugnug the way he used to. Now he watched Lala, who wore short loincloths.

“Nogh Lala!” Nugnug said, feeling frustrated and neglected. Groog ignored her.

“Groog!” She punched him in the arm, but he didn’t even flinch.

She sighed.

We need to talk, she thought.

Alisia sometimes likes to write things and posts them at eurasianflavour.wordpress.com or on twitter.