Carla couldn’t say she was surprised when her husband dragged her out to the barn to show her the sheets of metal he fused together into a large box. Nor was she surprised when he told her this box was, in fact, a time machine.When he urged her to climb in through the small opening on the side; she obliged. After...

Read The Bones of Doubt now!So are dinosaur bones a complete sham?Just for the record, I do not believe the Earth is 6,000 years old. Some of the people I grew up with do. They believe Satan put dinosaur bones on the Earth to tempt us into believing in things like evolution and science.While I like to respect...

A Study in the Demonic Digging Habits of Early StrigiformesStolas scratches at the dusty red dirt with his filthy talons. When his claw strikes a buried rock, he squawks, then pecks at it with his hooked beak. The sweltering Earthean sun beats relentlessly down on his feathered head. Still, it’s much cooler here...

—John Garvey

Week two of Dino week has officially come to a close and we will get through this one quickly so you can get back to your weekend and the first Sunday of the NFL season. Go Bears!Foofaraw Press StoreBooks, ebooks, and limited editions from Foofaraw Press.The Week That WasStorySmash BurgersAlexander V. KovalFun...

There ain’t no Brontosaurus, bonehead^[Pachycephalosaurus]. Or, rather, there was, but then there wasn’t, even if everyone thought there still was. American Natural History Museum signage said so for like nine decades. And then there’s the whole Apatosaurus skull swap debacle at the Carnegie Museum of Natural...

Read Smash Burgers now!The title obviously makes sense once you’ve read the story, but I’m curious how you came up with it because it still is a bit cheeky, in a way.It was actually the last line of the story that helped me find the title. It was one of those lines that came to me immediately after I conceived of...

He bellowed so loudly in frustration that he swore he felt his rage shake the earth. The braver souls in the vicinity recoiled from the sheer force of the sound, while those less courageous fled outright. He knew it was likely in his own worst interest, and would ultimately make his evening even more difficult, but...

A Bedtime StoryThe beginning of the end starts when an infant Saurolophus squishes some nameless prehistoric fish, and for the first time, a dinosaur cries.Worse, the crying turns the Saurolophus into a Kaiju, and each time a Triceratops blinks the Saurolophus is larger, and larger, and larger, until the...

Hello again! The end of August and beginning of September has been quite busy for us here at Foofaraw HQ. Our Best of Strange Fiction anthology for 2025 is now officially out in the world and available everywhere books are sold online; we launched our special guest-edited and themed September issue (and have a bunch...

Read Small Creatures Among Great Beasts now!Were you a big dinosaur kid growing up?I was a dinosaur maniac from about two years old: I guzzled picture books about them. Tricaretops were my favourite and still are: I mean, three horns and a built-in shield⁠—that’s evolutionary perfection. My family encouraged me in...

66 Million Years BC: the Chicxulub meteor misses Earth. It does not trigger a climate-destabilising dust cloud, and the extremity of subsequent ice ages is therefore blunted. The era’s megafauna migrate, survive and evolve, while new animals⁠—such as primates⁠—emerge.Last moon I was declared a man. Tonight is my...