The Story of Tall One

The title of this Blog refers to the first of seven stories in my book, The Blessing Stone. Tall One was a female human who lived a hundred thousand years ago on the African savannah. Not quite modern man, yet also not still brutish ape, Tall One symbolizes the transition of Homo sapiens from the animal kingdom to the unique human one. How would such an individual think and act? I wondered. What would her thoughts be? Her dreams? How about her emotions? And how big a part would her basic genetic structure play in her development into Homo sapiens ("Man the Wise")?