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Read When To? now!Do you have any “Tim’s” in your life who maybe get hyperfixated on something, ignoring the things that need to get done around them?Myself. I’ve had to set aside a day each week for laundry, dishes, and other household chores and then hold myself accountable to following through. Fictional worlds...
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...
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...
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