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    No Date

    By D. E. Harrison

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    There is no date in this land. Nothing happens that is worth remembering. You either feed or become feed. The mountain provides the warmth, the plants, the feed, the wetness to keep clean and feed. Tools are a simple stick and a rock. What can a young girl do with a stick and a rock? Mother’s blood runs hot and someone can capture a piece and have a shinney that helps feed.
    Little Bird has a new shinney better than any before. She shows the secret to the Old Ones. Then puts smaller pieces on stems which gets more feed. She watches birds fly and reasons that her stems need feathers to go further.
    Mother shakes and the paths to the feed close. Little Bird and a hunter travels where the paths are open and finds a new valley with no eaters. The Old Ones refuse to leave. The new valley has easy feeding and many other items to explore.
    Soon the eaters find a path into the Old One’s camp. They flee to the new valley but soon the eaters find the new valley and the easy feeding. Can they destroy the eaters before there is no feed left for anyone? Will the crushed different colors of Mother save the them?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. E. Harrison
    Release dateDec 25, 2018
    ISBN9780463249826
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    D. E. Harrison

    I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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      No Date - D. E. Harrison

      No Date

      By D. E. Harrison

      Copyright 2011 by D. E. Harrison

      Smashwords Edition

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 The Very Beginning

      Chapter 2 Hard Shinney, a Better Cutting Tool

      Chapter 3 A New Feeding Weapon is Made

      Chapter 4 Seasons Change

      Chapter 5 Very Small Hard Shinneys

      Chapter 6 The Season Changes Again

      Chapter 7 Another Season

      Chapter 8 Mother Shakes, a New Valley

      Chapter 9 In the New Valley

      Chapter 10 Return to the Encampment

      Chapter 11 The Encampment goes to the New Valley

      Chapter 12 Exploring the New Valley

      Chapter 13 Farming Feed for the Herd

      Chapter 14 Return to the Old Encampment

      Chapter 1 The Very Beginning

      Date? There is no date in this land. There never has been any event that is worth remembering. A member not returning to the encampment, a time of full bellies, even the Old Ones cannot remember any grand event.

      The Old Ones are just there, seldom does anyone remember the way it was before or after any eater or feeder.

      Whatever it is, either it feeds, it is useful or of no use, it is not discarded, simply forgotten.

      The hot Mountain shakes Mother on occasion and chases away the feed so feeding is much less. The howling starts and continues until a feeder is found and fed on.

      The specific time is either light or no light, wet or dry, warm, or cold. Grounders stay warm when they burrow into the shaky Mother.

      All members of the encampment look about the same. They are suntanned, hair uncut on the females; males have shorter hair that they smash off with a piece of Mother.

      Also, everyone uses the warm and hot wetness that flows from many places to stay clean and keep their encampment clean.

      Their personal coverings are sparse, warm, and unbelievably large and heavy when wet. Their feed is whatever they can kill, steal from the eaters, or just stumbles upon it.

      They use only pointed stems from the largest vegetation growing along the warm wetness. Larger members of the encampment use the bigger pointed stems.

      They have no set leadership, if you live long enough; you become an Old One. They are listened to because they have survived longer than anyone else.

      They have no history, even oral. The Old Ones recognize a few cycles of nature as they occur. They do not prepare for it, but the Old Ones do remember some things they must do. The entire encampment learns just by watching.

      Their diet is nuts, fruit, whatever else they can find if they do not have a feed. They have little use for fire, though they do know enough to stay away from it.

      The biggest threat to the encampment is what they do not recognize; the Mountain is the threat. They see the eaters as their only threat. They can devour a member of the encampment in a single gulp. The eaters feed on anything living except plants. But seldom feed on each other. The eaters come in all sizes and shapes.

      Nature protects on the encampment three sides, nothing can survive there. The single pathway is a small, narrow, and between many large parts of Mother. The path and all the members are spotlessly clean, so there is no scent for any eater to follow.

      There is a food storage system how it came about is lost in the far distance past. Even why the feed is prepared before feeding is unknown.

      Change is not happening. Most members live and die as their far distant relatives did. Life is only feed and to stay away from the eaters. Those that do not flee fast enough from the eaters are forgotten as life goes on. This small self-contained sphere may be in for an interesting period. They may even remember a few items to pass on to future generations.

      The lay of the land is simple. There is the mountain sometimes shaking, always noisy. From its hot life comes the wetness of all kinds that provide warmth and food to those on its slopes and in the valley below. The encampment is on a large flank of the mountain with only one-way in. The heat of the mountain greatly affects the weather. One could almost consider it a constant early summer where everything is growing at the maximum rate. But even this huge furnace cannot withstand all the cold when it comes.

      Wetness is painful but less painful when it comes from Mother further down the mountain. It is very pleasant when a white is on Mother.

      When the hot mountain shakes, everything shakes. Maybe a new opening will become a resting place. Even a new hot may come, or a new supply of cutters will be found.

      When the hot life runs from the mountain, the large hunters will take the great white skin of a spiker and bring back a piece of the hot mountain’s life to smash in their secret ways. The cutter so fashioned will last for several feedings.

      One light a large hunter finds a great spiker soon after being fed on. With luck, the innards will be nearly gone, and the thick outer parts will be usable. Quickly this part must be stolen away from the smaller eaters and tossed into the hot wetness. One must follow it until it comes to a halt and removed. It must be carried to the warm wetness further on and dumped again. If the piece is not lost or damaged it will be molded around a hunter and

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