Ruddy Apes And Cannibals: After Dinner Conversation, #20
By Shikhandin
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Synopsis: An expanding empire bumps into a remote island of civilized cannibals.
After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.
Podcast discussion of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Stitcher, and Youtube.
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Ruddy Apes And Cannibals - Shikhandin
Ruddy Apes And Cannibals
After Dinner Conversation Series
DOES THE RAIN REMEMBER vapor? Does vapor remember rain? Yet both were the other in their past lives. If you told their stories to each other, would they even comprehend? And, does that mean their stories are unnecessary, unimportant and implausible?
Histories collect. And then, either gather steam and grow into humongous clouds in the minds of humans or melt and dissipate from memory, at times leaving behind a burnt-out imprint that serves as myth, legend or even fable. And other times as nothing more than a piece of imagination, startled into story. In other words, what I have to say is also history. And therefore necessary. Whether plausible or not. Useful and important. Or not.
So listen wayfarer: once upon a time long ago, a series of explosions occurred on an island far away.
The island’s destruction did not impact the world at large directly. Besides, those who were responsible for it knew how camouflage their actions. But before any of it happened, the islanders lived a happy and progressive life. Though I daresay you would have to be open minded about their progress. Be that as it may, the island was too far from known civilizations to be easily discovered. But eventually the islanders were noticed by the passing ships of a specific breed of hominids or advanced apes if you will, who were in the habit of casting covetous eyes wherever the sun cast its light.
They were ruddy of face and rump, and they had all but forgotten the tails they had shed a few thousand years ago, which is a blip