A Dinosaur Is A Man's Best Friend (A Serialized Novel), Part One: "Radio Free Montana"
A Dinosaur Is A Man's Best Friend (A Serialized Novel), Part One:

Author: Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Publisher: Hobb's End Books

Published: 2018-06-30

Total Pages: 14

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She didn’t respond right away but only continued to stroke Ank, who’s stony texture seemed to fascinate her endlessly. At length she said, “Okay,” and turned one of its dials, and the room was immediately filled with the slightly raspy voice of a woman, who continued, “… if you’re heading our way through Shadow Canyon, following that beautiful river, perhaps, be advised there’s a pair of allosaurs operating in that area we call Lenny and Squiggy, and stay alert. And while we’d prefer you didn’t kill them if in fact you are armed, we wouldn’t recommend you get too friendly with them either. Once again this is Radio Free Montana, nestled just south of Paradise at Barley’s Hot Springs Resort, where we’ve got power, lights, food, and about three-hundred survivors who’d love nothing more than to meet you. But be advised as always: if you’re a marauder or a carpetbagger, you won’t like what we’ve prepared for you. So take a little advice from Bella Ray and don’t even try it. And on that it’s another round of AC/DC … for those struggling to get here even now, we salute you!”

A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Friend 7
A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Friend 7

Author: Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Publisher: Hobb's End Books

Published: 2018-08-30

Total Pages: 16

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"It's okay," he said, softly, gently. "I know you belong to him. Like I said, we just got—carried away. That's all." She lay against his chest in silence for what seemed a long time. "I don't know who I belong to anymore," she said. And soon she slept and dreamed once again—in which she found herself making love to her husband in the shitty trailer house in Anchor Rock … which morphed into the ramshackle house in Lonepine and Will; which bled into the tent with Sammy and the vision … a vision to which she returned, lost, wandering, until she found the man in the dirty bandana. Until they, too, were making love, or a perversion of it, and she knew not in truth who she even was anymore, but sensed that she had become not just a woman but a focusing point, an epitome, a river of menstrual blood as dark as it was unpredictable—the mother and whore to the entire world.

A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Friend (A Serialized Novel), Part Two: "Into the Badlands"
A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Friend (A Serialized Novel), Part Two:

Author: Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Publisher: Hobb's End Books

Published: 2018-07-25

Total Pages: 14

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"You talk to yourself a lot, don't you?" said Luna. Williams looked at her and finally smiled in spite of himself. "Or it just may be that he's really talking to me, and you just can't hear it." He tweaked her nose. "Yet. Either way, you need to eat something and get some sleep. We all do. We've got a big day ahead of us tomorrow." "Why a big day?" "Ank, camping gear," he said, and the dinosaur folded his front legs with a groan. "Because we're going to head out for Barley's in the morning." He loosed his bedroll from the supplies strapped to Ank's back and tossed it to her. "The place where the sounds on your radio come from. We've—we're searching for something. A place we call Tanelorn. And we think that might be it." "Tanelorn," she repeated. "What's that?" Williams rested his arms on the bundles of supplies, thinking about it. "I don't know, exactly. I reckon it's just a place someone feels drawn to … even if they don't know why. A place where the homeless can find a home, maybe." He looked at the lights in the sky, the Alien Borealis, as Ank called it, and wondered. "But it may be that it's something else—a kind of Omega Point. A place where all the colors of the spectrum meet, like a prism. And become focused into a single, burning light. Maybe that's what people mean when they talk about the power and the glory." He tugged on a rope, releasing a waterfall of pots and pans. "Meh. It's just something to keep us going." "Like a magnifying glass," she said, ignoring his last statement. He paused, thinking about it. "Like a magnifying glass," he agreed. Then he added, "Now, what'll it be? Beans or beans?"

A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Friend 4
A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Friend 4

Author: Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Publisher: Hobb's End Books

Published: 2018-08-05

Total Pages: 14

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“You’re worried about him, aren’t you?” Williams didn’t turn around. “Yeah. I guess I am.” He exhaled cigar smoke. “It’s not like him to be so …” “Morose?” “Yeah. I guess that’s it. You know, he’s been at that pond almost since we got here … just drinking and staring … completely oblivious. Remember how I told you that neither of us could recall our previous lives? Well, maybe he’s recalling …” He paused, struggling to find the right words. “A different state of being. A different incarnation. I think he was a man once. A man who lived for a very long time.” “A lonely man, then …” “Yes. Sort of a last man standing. And I think when we met … he rediscovered something he’d been missing for a long time.” “Friendship. Someone to talk to,” she said. “More than that. A reason to live. I—I’ve felt it myself. All those weeks, months, spent walking alone. I told you about Tanelorn. Well that was what we called our reason to live … our reason for putting one foot in front of the other. Because without that …” “‘Gazelle Theory,’” she said. “What?” She laughed a little. “Something my husband used to say. It means, ‘move or die.’” He laughed a little himself. “That’s good. ‘Move or die.’ Whether it’s a physical death or an emotional one.” He stared at Ank in the gloaming before another hand touched him, this time Luna. “Is Ank all right?”

A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Friend 9
A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Friend 9

Author: Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Publisher: Hobb's End Books

Published: 2018-10-01

Total Pages: 16

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They both felt it at the same time, even as the train lurched forward and the cars jolted thunderously—a tremor in the very fabric of things, like a ripple in a foam of potentiality which contained in it the threads of all their possible futures. Something, somewhere, had just happened—something directly related to their current endeavor of delivering the bomb to Barley and detonating it amidst the Enemy. communicated Ank, still smarting from his struggle to climb onto the flatcar with the added weight of the weapon. “You felt it too? Like one door closed and another had opened, but with disastrous consequences, for us all …” Williams looked at him, rattled and bewildered. “Ank, how could we know that?” “Ank, don’t.” Williams leaned forward until they were almost nose to nose. “Our friendly engineer, in case you haven’t noticed, is clearly insane!” And then Williams was leaning over the side using one of Ank’s spikes for a handhold while simultaneously yelling at the engineer, who poked his head out the engine’s side window, his long, gray hair flying, and shouted, “You want speed, you got it, ha-ha! The world, she’s a comin’ back, yesiree!” He sounded the horn suddenly and Williams covered an ear, even as his hat blew off and fluttered away behind them. “The New World Special is back in service—and it’s taking its passengers to the Promised Land! Ha-ha!”

A Dinosaur Is a Man's Best Friend 10
A Dinosaur Is a Man's Best Friend 10

Author: Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Publisher:

Published: 2018-10

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781726601559

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They streamed out from the tree line in a veritable blitzkrieg, the guns of the tanks rotating and firing, the foot soldiers alternately taking cover behind vehicles and squeezing off bursts, the raptors and triceratops and stegosaurs charging-as Red and Charlotte and Roger and Savanna continued shooting and the children ran ammo and Bella lit the gasoline trenches, as Gojira and the clerk prepared shoulder-mounted rocket launchers. As hundreds of others joined the battle belatedly and began to kill and to be killed. And then they were there; they were at the gates, and the triceratops and stegosaurs had waded into the burning trenches and begun serving as bridges-sacrificing themselves so that the raptors and the foot soldiers could cross-even as a column of bulldozers fanned out along the perimeter and prepared to break the lines for good: dropping their blades-which rattled and clinked against the hail of gunfire-revving their engines, spewing black smoke. "Bayonets " cried Red as the raptors fell upon them, thrusting his own so that it skewered one of the dinosaurs like a shish kabob even before he used its own weight and momentum to swing it over and behind himself.

A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Friend 3
A Dinosaur is a Man's Best Friend 3

Author: Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Publisher: Hobb's End Books

Published: 2018-07-28

Total Pages: 14

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"As for what it proves beyond that is anyone's guess," said the woman, sounding suddenly tired. "That they're experimenting on us as well as exterminating us? We don't even know who they are, much less what their relationship to the Flashback is. We don't even know if 'they' applies; or if they're just a force of nature, like the weather." She pulled down her mask. "It just feels so pointless sometimes, this whole operation." She shook her head. "I'm sorry. I'll be all right, I just …" The man reached out to her and touched her shoulder. "It's been a long day, Maggie. Why don't we just … retire to the Tiki Tent." He tried to sound optimistic. "There's still enough vegetables for Bloody Marys—I'll be the bartender." He looked at her hopefully. "Please, God," said the younger woman. "I'm dying here." Maggie looked back and forth between them and then at him, at Ank. She stroked the side of his snout gently. "So we know now that you're thinking … we just don't know what. Nor what to do with you."