Sheriff Lyle, daydreaming of his retirement just outside of Bozeman, spots his brainiac buddy
Pete and his egghead nephew Jimmy chasing a Deinonychus full-speed down the highway in their
stretch-cab Ram pickup—and it’s not the only one on the loose.
“Lookee here, it’s good you know what this thing is, but where in hell did it come
from?”
“The early Cretaceous. One hundred twenty million years ago,” Peter
said.
Sometimes real smart people can be a little dense.
DEBUT
“Cretaceous on Ice,” in Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities (Hydra
House, February 2010).
VARIANTS
Debut. “Cretaceous on Ice,” in Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities (Hydra House, February 2010).
“Lookee here, it’s good you know what this thing is, but where in hell did it come
from?”
1 English variant