10.

10.
Breath detonating on her back, your blood doubled, your palms itching, you slipped your hands down, investigating her vertebrae.

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9.

9.
It’s unimportant. Wrapping each other, duo-zoned, your eyes mirrored retina to eternity (or thereabouts).

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8.
Flustered, having let his anger show, remonstrative keeper embarrassed.

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7.
“NO PETTING!”

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6.
Zookeepers seldom experience human licentiousness - not done at all.

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5.
So, without knowing why, a woman turned right round and embraced you (ardently?).

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4.
Staring at (contemplating) ruminants, unaware you stood there smiling.

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3.
She doesn’t know this about-turn’s terminus - only that this only is unquestionably important. Crazy, really. Hadn’t the zoo (the elephants, air loaded with dung) meant anything?

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2.
Meaning? Since your arrival nothing except absolute history matters. Believes everything else is utterly superfluous.

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PART ONE

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She now concentrates on etymology.

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About 'The Last Ape House'

'The Last Ape House' is a short story with pictures which was begun in 1999 and which I've worked on sporadically ever since. It will be published here in (very short) daily installments until we get to the end or we get as far as I've managed to write. The pictures were taken on the western side of Kingsland High Road in the spring of 1999, heading north from Hoxton through Dalston and Stoke Newington.

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Fiction from Will Ashon available online

"The Heritage" - a direct download link for the pdf of my second novel for Faber & Faber. Costs nowt, too!
"The Worms" - short story on Dogmatika
"Tale" - short story on 3:AM
"Cops" - short story on Scarecrow
"Doorsteps" - a short story for the March 2009 issue of Beat The Dust
"Camera" - a very short story on the 3:AM site.
"Hole" - a short story I wrote for Radio 3's The Verb now downloadable as a neat, tidy and free pdf.
"Once Upon One" - a flash fiction on my main page
"Clear Water" extract - downloadable from the Faber & faber website (this link may be dead by now)