Since the dawn of mankind, humans made efforts to communicate their stories. In the beginning, pictures on the wall of a cave may tell stories of hunters quests to defeat an enemy or seek food. The first drawing were on a rock in South Africa, dated 73,000 years ago.
Pictures to tell those tales and more evolved into various forms of hieroglyphs. We see this type of imagery in many of the world's cultures.
The oldest written languages, various forms of cuneiform, were able to tell those stories in more detail, along with mundane accounting of livestock and an ancient form of invoicing.
Eventually, multiple languages proliferated the world over with rules of grammar and structure created to make communication more clear and to give color to the stories told in the words they used. Short stories are generally up to 7,500 words.
JW Davis has a library of short stories he's written and each month, we will feature a new tale, so come back often.
This month's short story "Randy's Ride," is a tale of Karma and how things are sometimes meant to go wrong. Hit the link to read or download.
