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D is for Dinosaur - Alphabet Anthologies #4 - cover

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D is for Dinosaur - Alphabet Anthologies #4

Michael M. Jones, Beth Cato, Michael B. Tager, Alexandra Seidel, Brittany Warman, C.S. MacCath, Simon Kewin, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Michael Fosburg, KV Taylor, Gary B. Phillips, BD Wilson, Michael Kellar, Pete Aldin, Cory Cone, Samantha Kymmell-Harvey, Jonathan C. Parrish, Sara Cleto, L.S. Johnson, Megan Engelhardt, Amanda C. Davis, Andrew Bourelle, Hal J. Friesen, Suzanne J. WIllis, Lynn Hardaker, Jeanne Kramer-Smyth

Publisher: Poise and Pen Publishing

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Summary

For the fourth installment of Rhonda Parrish's Alphabet Anthologies, contributors were challenged to write about dinosaurs. The resulting twenty-six stories contain widely different interpretations of the dinosaur theme and span the spectrum from literal to metaphoric.Within these stories -- set in alternative histories, far-flung futures and times just around the corner -- dinosaurs whimper and waste away or roar and rage. People can be dinosaurs, as can ideas, fictions and flesh. Knitted dinosaurs share space with ghostly, genetically engineered and even narcotic ones.Teenagers must embrace their inner dinosaurs in order to find peace and belonging, a dying woman duels a God in a far future city that echoes aspects of our past, an abused wife accompanies her husband on a hunt for an ancient power and finds more than she could ever have imagined, a girl with wonderful magical powers stumbles across the bones of a giant long-dead lizard and so much more!
Available since: 02/21/2017.

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