Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
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wanted to write a quirky article for Chris’ blog, The Story Reading Ape (I mean, when you start with that title, readers expect outside-the-norm, don’t you think?). Well, unusual fits my stories, mostly set within the rarely-read prehistoric fiction genre. My overarching theme–survival–might sound mundane in today’s world where man is king but in prehistoric days (one-two million years ago), we were always one encounter away from extinction. The mystery of how we survived a habitat filled with sabertooth tigers, massive tusked mammoth, and vicious wolves almost as tall as us is why I began writing this genre. Add to that, our predecessors had puny teeth, dull nails, skin that could be sliced open with one swipe of a five-inch claw, rarely wore clothes, and had no idea what a number or a wheel was. Well, you see the problem with the simple goal of survival.
So each…
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