Frank Myers

End of an H6 Haplogroup

Mesopotamia 3069 B.C. At her family’s farm estate south of the Tigris River, Cunei wiped sweat from her brown eyes with her tanned muscular arms. The low sun signaled her to finish harvesting as she bent down and ran her hands through the green leafy vegetation for the day’s last time. Even weary, she liked the touch of its crisp cool feel. She enjoyed the textile kinetic energy of finding the base of the vegetable and breaking it from the stem. Each time she harvested a plant, the soft snapping noise caused a sense of success to well up inside her. She had sheparded these plants from seed to fruit, breaking her young body from the exertion and weathering her hands to look much older than her twenty years.