Status Updates From Dinosaur Fantastic

Evolving Conspiracy by Roger MacBride Allen: Bueber pays a visit to his friend and colleague Deblick to present his latest conspiracy theory, that God and the Cubans faked the existence of dinosaurs.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dinosaur by Gregory Feeley: a series of vignettes, short-short stories, and mini essays about dinosaurs in fiction.

Fellow Passengers by Barbara Delaplace: A tabloid reporter recounts how she broke the story of a deinonychus found attacking cattle, how the dinosaur was captured and placed in a zoo, and how it will live out its life and die alone just like the world’s last passenger pigeon.

Chameleon by Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Willi, a little witch girl, starts at a new school but it’s just like every other school. She doesn’t fit in and the kids make fun of her because she’s a witch and isn’t like them.

Pteri by Lea Hernandez: A witch tells how she Called her familiar, a tiny pterodactyl.

‘Saur Spot by Kevin O’Donnell, Jr.: Gideon Cope and his wife Mary Ann buy a small dinosaur to eat the cockroaches in their house.

Betrayal by Susan Casper: by finds sea cave with mosasaur, keeps it a secret for years, then betrays mosasaur by selling photos of her when he needs money. Later, another betrayal.

On Tiptoe by Beth Meacham: Alice takes photographs of fuzzy shadows and thinks it’s proof there are chameleon dinosaurs in New York City.

The Pangaean Principle by Jack Nimersheim: Pietor Sinkovich works feverishly to isolate dinosaur DNA so he can resurrect a seismosaur—and more—and nearly loses his daughter Katrina in the process.

Rex by David Gerrold: Jonathan Filltree resents the miniature Tyrannosaurus Rex his spoiled daughter Jill and her manipulative mother Joyce forced him to buy, and tries to get rid of it until Rexie saves the family from a burglar.

Whilst Slept the Sauropod by Nicholas A. DiChario: the people of Sleepy Mountain live simple, traditional lives—until an earthquake cracks Sleepy Mountain apart and reveals an enormous dinosaur.

Curren’s Song by Laura Resnick: Curren hears the call of the monsters living deep under the waters of Loch Ness, but the priest Columba would have him turn from the creatures and worship instead a god killed by the Romans.

Wise One’s Tale by Joseph’s Sherman: Quick Trickster manipulates the Fire Being into giving him and his kind wings by using his tricks to pass the god’s tests.

Shadow of a Change by Michelle M. Sagara: April Stephens turns into a dinosaur.

Cutting Down Fred by Dean Wesley Smith: a man meets an oak tree named Fred who shows him ancestral oak memories of dinosaur times. In my copy of the book this story is signed by the author. Neat.