03/04/2022
Well, it's finally come to pass after many long months of late nights, coffee, no booze, the loss of some 64 pages, and a cigar or two, mind-numbing research. Now the editing begins, hopefully with better spelling, a story of history that could or should have been. With a bunch of luck, 'A Time Lost' will be published, for your enjoyable reading, by the end of March. Here are the opening paragraphs...
The date is October 1492. The end of the story.
A new world of land had been found in the middle of the ocean. The end of the story…
But the beginning started 35,000 years ago.
To get from there to here is what’s intriguing. Come along on this trail of murder, theft, deceit, a new life, discovery, and life’s renewal. We’re talking, early human life, striving to survive.
In a world of depleting supplies of food, shelter, safety, Humans following the herds, animals foraging on grass, ever moving East. Many nomadic tribes found the land for expanding, as life moved into the areas the oceans gave up.
The oceans had succumbed to the changing climate of the time. More snow fell than rain. The colder North had garnered the most and deepest of the snow, miles deep, collected as the oceans were depleted of their moisture. As the water receded, plants grew from seeds dropped by flying birds, as they looked for food, shelter, and nesting places to raise their brood. Other seeds were sown by the winds that had floated in the air, dropped on the water’s surface over the melaenas.
Larger animals traveled the land as new grasses began covering the old ocean floor. The ocean floor water miles deep, now gone, enriched by millions of years of ocean life dying, producing layers of life giving sediment, ladened with nutrients, layered over the new sprawling plans and valleys, with volcanic mountains scattered over thousands of surface miles.
Nomadic peoples would spread over this new land to make for themselves settlements; that in time would be obscured by a new miles deep ocean, slowly over time. Lost to all time would be the buried bodies of leaders, followers, scholars, farmers, artists, people, evidence of civilization once here, striving for survival. The Living moving on to higher plains of land, the land giving itself up to the expanding humans.
The progression of life, discovery and conquering of the land, covered with new animals and plant life, continues.
