Daughters of Guernica

A Stone Age Tale

De: Cynthia Joyce Clay

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A Hamlet, Beowulf and Neanderthal mashup!

Thousands of years ago, at the famed Salamanca Grotto of the Wise, Amets was enjoying the life of a perpetual student until a banshee keened the death of her father. Upon her return home to Guernica, Amets found that her uncle, Gorri, had murdered her father and married her mother. Not only that, but Uncle Gorri was taking advantage of Neanderthal attacks by killing people who crossed him and claiming the Neanderthals did it. What Amets didn't know was that Uncle Gorri had imprisoned a Neanderthal woman, Herti, nor did Amets know that Herti held a special grudge against her because Amets’ father had killed Herti’s parents. Actually, Amets’ father had only killed Herti’s father, but Herti tended to inflate injustices against her. Amets' aunt forbade her younger son Lertxun, whom she did not love, from romancing Amets because she wanted her elder son, whom she did love, to marry Amets since Amets was the heir of the Guernica Family. Herti had her eye on Lertxun, which gave her yet another reason to want to kill Amets.

At the annual celebration of the beloved dead, Amets conducted a ritual to force ghosts to re-enact her father’s murder. Her uncle, Gorri, enraged by the ghost pantomime, sent Amets and two of her friends, Arrosa and Urea, to Cornwall on the pretext of establishing trade with Cornwall. Amets, Arrosa, and Urea, lost, traveled in the opposite direction from Cornwall. They discovered Gorri meant to have them killed. Though Amets managed to escape her uncle, Herti, who also wants to make Amets' Eyes Soup, awaits her in Guernica...