Mitch woke up after a long sleep, hoping everything would be back to normal, but it wasn't. So he was just daydreaming, thinking about people coming up over a hill, maybe savages. And sure enough, there they were, coming up over the hill. Nice people it turned out. But they were always silent. Never spoke. Mental telepathy! Mitch had time-traveled thousands of years back in time to the original human beings, an advanced race of people basing our First Civilisation on transmitting sacred knowledge and science and songs and feelings even telepathically....
John Stubbs received his PhD in Renaissance literature from Cambridge University. His biography John Donne: The Reformed Soul was shortlisted for the Costa Award and won the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award. He lives in Slovenia.