New release on Smashwords

New short story on Smashwords!

I had some fun with this one. An historical fantasy - or rather a pre-historical fantasy. What might our earliest ancestors, applying their curiosity and intelligence to the world around them, have made of their dreams, illogical and insubstantial? Would it be foolish to act on them, or would that, in their world, make perfect sense?

There’s something about Doggerland - Europe’s prehistoric “Atlantis”, slowly drowned by sea level rise as the last Ice Age ended - that intrigues and fascinates. I’ve been enjoying the collection of essays in Doggerland: Lost World Under the North Sea edited by Luc Amkreutz & Asaja van der Vaart-Vershoof. Specialists, citizen scientists, and North Sea industrial concerns, working together, reveal new findings every day about the peoples who thrived here in the Mesolithic era. My story is set during a brief warming period the late Paleolithic, from which much less in the form of artifacts survives. But that’s the fun of speculative fiction - it’s speculative, and it’s fiction.