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    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Dinosaur Carnage

Dinosaur Carnage

Spitzer, Wayne Kyle

Paperback

Series: Dinosaur Apocalypse, Book 11

Horror

ISBN13: 9798664241389
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 6 2020
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The Flashback/Dinosaur Apocalypse continues ...That's when I heard the strange sound: a kind of forlorn mewing, like the note of a horn being drug out too long, coming from just around the corner, just beyond the liquor store-and paused, holding up my hand.What? What's going on?I waved her into silence, dropping the rein, then hustled to the edge of the building-where, after peeking around the corner, I saw a juvenile sauropod of the Diplodocus family (meaning it was the size of a typical school bus) collapsed in the middle of the street-its right front leg stuck in a manhole.What is it? What do you see?I looked from the sauropod to the corner of a nearby building, where something had moved, then across the street to an overgrown alley. Yes, I thought. There. And there. Between the tattoo parlor and the marijuana dispensary ...Allosaurs, I said, gravely. An entire pack of them. In desert camouflage. They-they've got something trapped.Omigod. It-it's not your dog, is it?I returned and picked up the rein, began leading Blucifer forward, into the intersection. No.Wait ... what are you-We're going through, I said.But what if those things-They don't care about us; they want the bigger game. For now. Just hold on.The horse's hooves went clip-clop, clip-clop as we passed, the bluish-gray sauropod coming into full view ...A moment later she said, It-it's stuck. In the manhole. Do you see that?I eyed the predators warily, continuing to lead. There's nothing we can do about it.But she'll be helpless against-That is the way of it, I insisted. The way of the-Look, would you stop with the Indian clap-trap? I'm not even sure-There was a thwomp as the allosaur by the building leapt into the road-not by us but about fifty feet away, near the sauropod.Jesus, can't you do anything? What about your bow?And risk bringing them down on us? I intensified our pace, sprinting toward the Stratosphere. No!And then they were coming-the allosaurs from across the street-passing so close we could smell the meat on their breath; closing in on the frightened herbivore ... until we passed the scene completely and sought refuge in a nearby gas station (its storefront had long since collapsed) and gathered there trembling as the sauropod cried out-for it wouldn't be long now until they fell upon her.Jesus, said Essie, listening. What a world.Yes, I said, remembering. My father used to say it had a demonic sublime; every tree and every rock, every animal, including man, down to the lowest insect. I listened as the sauropod moaned, seeming already to give up, to resign its fate. And yet.What do you mean?What?You said, 'and yet.' What did you mean?I un-shouldered the compound bow-rubbing my aching deltoid, stretching my arm. Nothing. It's just that ... maybe it doesn't have to be this way.When she didn't respond I looked at her-found her already looking at me: calmly, meditatively, her eyes seeming to glimmer. I'm sure I don't know what you mean.I mean ... that I could end it. Her confusion and terror. That I-could prevent her from suffering. I looked at the bow and the dark, poisoned bolts attached to it. That it's in my hands to do so.The Flashback/DinosaurApocalypse CycleFlashback(re-printed in Dinosaur Apocalypse)Flashback Dawn(re-printed in Dinosaur Apocalypse)Tales from the Flashback(re-printed as Dinosaur Rampage)Flashback Twilight(serialized as A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Friend;re-printed as The Complete Ank & Williams, Dinosaur War, Paladins)A Reign of Thunder(serialized as Heat Wave)A Survivor's Guide to theDinosaur Apocalypse(re-printed as Dinosaur Carnage)

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