Emergence: Section Three, Earth; Collected Parts XV – XXI

15 Observation, 16 Existence, 17 Volcano, 18 Disaster, 19 Consciousness, 20 Collective,

21 Migration

Emergence: Section Three, Earth Part Fifteen, Observation Collected Chapters	Section 03, Earth Part 15, Observation Chapters 01 The Paintings 02 The Music 03 The Memory of Stars 04 Mutation 05 The New Gene 06 Collective Consciousness 07 Synergy #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi @jaybotten
Observation; Part Fifteen, Chapter One: The Paintings	Pt. 15, Ch. 01 People painted, projected images of the future cave walls; and stones, the past also, things no one living had seen. #Emergence
Observation; Part Fifteen, Chapter Two: The Music	Pt. 15, Ch. 02 Drums, rhythm; pushed the stories of each tribe, each family deep into the memory of its members changing their DNA. #Emergence
Observation; Part Fifteen, Chapter Three: The Memory of Stars	Pt. 15, Ch. 03 Their culture had devolved; from star to cave, yet it retained a memory of its ancestry; knowledge encoded in cells. #Emergence
Observation; Part Fifteen, Chapter Four: Mutation		Pt. 15, Ch. 04 On their sojourn to Earth humans had mutated their DNA, allowing them to inhabit, and thrive on the wet, blue world. #Emergence
Observation; Part Fifteen, Chapter Five: The New Gene		Pt. 15, Ch. 05 Changes beget changes. The Ancients became humanity, their genes converged with native life. They became new people. #Emergence
Observation; Part Fifteen, Chapter Six: Collective Consciousness		Pt. 15, Pt. 06 Receptors emerged in the human brain; linking it to the Earth’s magnetic fields. In this, humanity became connected. #Emergence
Observation; Part Fifteen, Chapter Seven: Synergy		Pt. 15, Ch. 07 Few humans were aware of the collective consciousness. Everyone was entangled in it, and it made many of them crazy. #Emergence
Emergence: Section Three, Earth Part Sixteen, Existence Collected Chapters		Section 03, Earth Part 16, Existence Chapters 01 Flesh 02 Bi Pedal 03 Stereo Hearing 04 Binocular Vision 05 Hemispheric Brain 06 Thirst 07 Duality #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi @jaybotten
Existence; Part Sixteen, Chapter One: Flesh		Pt. 16, Ch. 01 The flesh remembers. Bodies change with every new experience; each new thread, woven proteins in the fabric of life. #Emergence
Existence; Part Sixteen, Chapter Two: Bi Pedal		Pt. 16, Ch. 02 Stand against the pull of gravity; under the weight of atmosphere. Pivot on a central axis; dance on two feet, walk. #Emergence
Existence; Part Sixteen, Chapter Three: Stereo Hearing		Pt. 16, Ch. 03 Communicating in sound is slow; luxuriant compared to light. Waves crashing through the body, adding depth to sight. #Emergence
Existence; Part Sixteen, Chapter Four: Binocular Vision		Pt. 16, Ch. 04 A band of light pierces organic lenses, from corner to corner 180 degrees; color and depth fill the field of vision. #Emergence
Existence; Part Sixteen, Chapter Five: Hemispheric		Pt. 16, Ch. 05 A cognitive override; flooding the organ with fear, or desire; then, split down the middle; left for right, duality. #Emergence
Existence; Part Sixteen, Chapter Six: Thirst		Pt. 16, Pt. 06 A body needs water, oxygen in the lungs; to thirst is to know that the end is near; the end of the body’s suffering. #Emergence
Existence; Part Sixteen, Chapter Seven: Duality		Pt. 16, Ch. 07 The body is a cognitive organ, with a chemical drive fed into the quantum field; a neural net rooted in the organic. #Emergence
Emergence: Section Three, Earth Part Seventeen, Volcano Collected Chapters		Section 03, Earth Part 17, Volcano Chapters 01 The Last Event 02 74,000 Years Ago 03 The Discovery 04 The Warnings 05 Impending Doom 06 Preparations 07 Fate #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi @jaybotten
Volcano; Part Seventeen, Chapter One: The Last Event		Pt. 17, Ch. 01 It came without warning, shaking the world, throwing it off its axis. Ash covered the world, hiding it from the sun. #Emergence
Volcano; Part Seventeen, Chapter Two: 74,000 Years Ago		Pt. 17, Ch. 02 The human family was small; a few million spread out, starving. Jim starved with them in the famine after the blast. #Emergence
Volcano; Part Seventeen, Chapter Three: The Discovery		Pt. 17, Ch. 03 Jim had known about it for millennia. Humans found it fifty years ago. A super-volcano pushing mountains to the sky. #Emergence
Volcano; Part Seventeen, Chapter Four: The Warnings		Pt. 17, Ch. 04 A deformation of the dome, earthquakes, boiling water in lakes and streams; something big growing below the surface. #Emergence
Volcano; Part Seventeen, Chapter Five: Impending Doom		Pt. 17, Ch. 05 There were documentaries but few people were aware of the danger. Misinformation was leaked as the explosion neared. #Emergence
Volcano; Part Seventeen, Chapter Six: Preparations		Pt. 17, Pt. 06 Timing is everything. The volcano would catalyze the preservation of humanity; a few would live. All would be saved. #Emergence
Volcano; Part Seventeen, Chapter Seven: Fate		Pt. 17, Ch. 07 There is no fate but there are certainties. The eruption of volcanoes is among them. The end of humanity hung there. #Emergence
Emergence: Section Three, Earth Part Eighteen, Disaster Collected Chapters		Section 03, Earth Part 18, Disaster Chapters 01 Yellowstone 02 Lift 03 Rumbling 04 The Blast 05 The Axis 06 The Cloud 07 The Other Side #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi @jaybotten
Disaster; Part Eighteen, Chapter One: Yellowstone		Pt. 18, Ch. 01 The awesome-beauty of a landscape carved from living rock; the cauldron’s bubbling water gave the tell, catastrophe. #Emergence
Disaster; Part Eighteen, Chapter Two: Lift		Pt. 18, Ch. 02 Humans noticed the volcano when the surrounding mountains began to lift. They did not know how vast the problem was. #Emergence
Disaster; Part Eighteen, Chapter Three: Rumbling		Pt. 18, Ch. 03 Animals sensed it first, and fled in droves, while the seismographs rattled, but doubts had crept into the analysis. #Emergence
Disaster; Part Eighteen, Chapter Four: The Blast		Pt. 18, Ch. 04 Every living thing heard the explosion. Chaos followed quick upon the sound wave, with prayers rising up to meet it. #Emergence
Disaster; Part Eighteen, Chapter Five: The Axis		Pt. 18, Ch. 05 For hundreds of thousands of years; pressure grew. When the Yellowstone Cauldera blew the Earth shifted on its axis. #Emergence
Disaster; Part Eighteen, Chapter Six: The Cloud		Pt. 18, Pt. 06 Ash buried North America. Fine particles, and light blocking gas rose high in the atmosphere, and covered the world. #Emergence
Disaster; Part Eighteen, Chapter Seven: The Other Side		Pt. 18, Ch. 07 The eruption was a crucible. Half of the world perished within days, and most of the rest in the year that followed. #Emergence
Emergence: Section Three, Earth Part Nineteen, Consciousness Collected Chapters		Section 03, Earth Part 19, Consciousness Chapters 01 Self 02 Other 03 Mother 04 Father 05 Siblings 06 Family 07 Other Self #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi @jaybotten
Consciousness; Part Nineteen, Chapter One: Self		Pt. 19, Ch. 01 A birth is a coalescence of matter organizing into form; supporting a consciousness, emerging independent and alone. #Emergence
Consciousness; Part Nineteen, Chapter Two: Other		Pt. 19, Ch. 02 The animal brain; its glands pumping chemicals into a liquid consciousness; fearful, regarding all others as threat. #Emergence
Consciousness; Part Nineteen, Chapter Three: Mother		Pt. 19, Ch. 03 There is a time for every mammal, in the warmth, and dark of the womb, when they are truly one with another; mother. #Emergence
Consciousness; Part Nineteen, Chapter Four: Father		Pt. 19, Ch. 04 Stranger, protector, arbiter; a father is the first person the child seeks to bond with, to contend with, to please. #Emergence
Consciousness; Part Nineteen, Chapter Five: Siblings		Pt. 19, Ch. 05 The first with whom you share a common bond, and to compete; you identify with them, learn betrayal, and to forgive. #Emergence
Consciousness; Part Nineteen, Chapter Six: Family		Pt. 19, Pt. 06 We protect those closest to us with ferocity equal to our own drive for self protection; blood, family, it binds us. #Emergence
Consciousness; Part Nineteen, Chapter Seven: Other Self		Pt. 19, Ch. 07 We become self-aware fearing any; accept kin, who shared our interests, learning to see strangers as other selves. #Emergence
Emergence: Section Three, Earth Part Twenty, Collective Collected Chapters		Section 03, Earth Part 20, Collective Chapters 01 Family 02 Kin 03 Village 04 Tribe 05 City 06 State 07 Nation #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi @jaybotten
Collective; Part Twenty, Chapter One: Family		Pt. 20, Ch. 01 The care of a loving family is like the wet, clinging mesh of a spiderweb. Familial obligations are invisible bonds. #Emergence
Collective; Part Twenty, Chapter Two: Kin		Pt. 20, Ch. 02 Family becomes a clan. Loyalties are set in the body, by chemicals, enzymes, and proteins; bonds we do not question. #Emergence
Collective; Part Twenty, Chapter Three: Village		Pt. 20, Ch. 03 Hierarchies emerge in village life; at the well, the markets, places of worship, judgment. The center is everything. #Emergence
Collective; Part Twenty, Chapter Four: Tribe		Pt. 20, Ch. 04 There was safety and competition, there were shared customs, stories, and rituals in the tribe. There was otherness. #Emergence
Collective; Part Twenty, Chapter Five: City		Pt. 20, Ch. 05 People flowed into the urban centers to trade, and work. Families dispersed, becoming less important than neighbors. #Emergence
Collective; Part Twenty, Chapter Six: State		Pt. 20, Pt. 06 Cities gathered villages to themselves, as families did kin, in ancient bonds of vassalage; bond of the imagination. #Emergence
Collective; Part Twenty, Chapter Seven: Nation		Pt. 20, Ch. 07 Common language, and custom; bound States into Nations; for security, for prosperity, and allegiances shift outward. #Emergence
Emergence: Section Three, Earth Part Twenty-one, Migration Collected Chapters		Section 03, Earth Part 21, Migration Chapters 01 Forest 02 Plains 03 Hills 04 Mountains 05 Rivers 06 Coast 07 Ocean #Emergence #SuperShortFiction #365SciFi @jaybotten
Migration; Part Twenty-one, Chapter One: Forest		Pt. 21, Ch. 01 A clearing in the trees, close to a clear stream, the fire burning; smoking fish, bird, rabbit. The primordial life. #Emergence
Migration; Part Twenty-one, Chapter Two: Plains		Pt. 21, Ch. 02 Look across the plain; over the tall grasses, the open sky, deep-blue, and oppressing. Dangers lurking in the field. #Emergence
Migration; Part Twenty-one, Chapter Three: Hills		Pt. 21, Ch. 03 From caves in the forest by clear springs, across the open plain; we built homes on hills, drawn close to the stars. #Emergence
Migration; Part Twenty-one, Chapter Four: Mountains		Pt. 21, Ch. 04 We led the herd to the mountain, and up the lofty peak; looking for passes, we found ourselves, we found the sacred. #Emergence
Migration; Part Twenty-one, Chapter Five: Rivers		Pt. 21, Ch. 05 We followed the rivers to the source; the clear springs from which the water flowed, and founded our villages there. #Emergence
Migration; Part Twenty-one, Chapter Six: Coast		Pt. 21, Pt. 06 The first roads were shorelines. We roamed the inland lakes, and seas; those flat coastal plains, trekking our path. #Emergence
Migration; Part Twenty-one, Chapter Seven: Ocean		Pt. 21, Ch. 07 On thin strips of wood, canoes; we hurled ourselves into the waves, like the ancients did as they crossed the stars. #Emergence