Primordial Suite (or: an Evolutionary Odyssey)

Primordial Suite (Running Title) by Jacob Wheeler

Note: this piece is still a work in progress. I personally like the direction this one is heading in, but I will also acknowledge that some parts don't really go anywhere and the ending needs some more attention. Either way, let us know what you think of it! Keep checking in to see the product get refined and finalized.

This was intended as a look into the four-billion-year history of our planet. It's an easy enough number to write on paper, but if you counted back one second for every year the Earth has been around, you would have counted 142 years- past the Titanic, the film industry, even the country of Korea. Over that time, the continents have collided and separated countless times, trillions of species have passed in and out of existence, thousands of stars in our own galaxy have been born and died. As we drift through this cosmic void, it may be intimidating at times. In this universe of unimaginable scale, how can we consider any of humanity's grandest achievements as grand in any respect? Who are we in this abyss of deep time and deep space?

Don't worry: this isn't one of those stories.

This isn't hopelessness I was trying to get across. If this were a book, it would be hard to imagine any letter or stroke of ink to be worth anything, but what would that book be without any one of those letters? In some instances, the right letter in the right place can change the tone of a word, phrase, or entire page. Billions of letters have come and gone, each forming a new definition of the words to follow- Pikia, Tiktaalik, Lystrosaurus, Eoraptor, Ambulocetius, Australopithicus, and now Homo sapiens. Not only are we finally in the position to read the pages that have preceded ours, but we can change the course of this story more dramatically than any other part that came before.

What do you want your page to say?

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