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Fiction

Cave Girl Principles

Larry Chan takes us back to the dawn of thought.

Stick was curled on a rock jutting out of the ice sheet. Her long red hair was tangled around her small flinted spear. Her bow rested at her side, along with its one remaining arrow. She furrowed her brow at the oxen in the distance. Many thoughts were on her mind – but one thing she could not have fathomed was that autism existed even in the Ice Age.

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