Fireworks are boring
Jul 06, 2023 10:56 am
Raymund Eich
Science fiction and fantasy - from Middle America to the ends of the Universe
Hi ,
Is that scandalous to say the week of Independence Day? The fireworks displays are boring? They are repetitive, you have to admit. The colors change, the patterns change, sometime they launch one that screams apart. But I discovered over the weekend that if you have a lawn chair and noise-cancellation mode on your headphones, you can even fall asleep in the middle of one.
Though I did get a good line out of it. One character speaking to a second about a third: "Dear boy, he's as deaf as a retired artilleryman."
Nice line. Now I have to write a story to use it...
Portia Oakeshott, Dinosaur Veterinarian, is now live!
As a girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her balmy home planet,
New New South Wales.
As a graduate from the planet’s top veterinary school and a recent hire by the dinosaur preserve, caring for dinosaurs brings Portia into conflict with land-coveting ranchers, spoiled teenagers, villainous millionaires, religious fanatics, and scheming politicians.
Her adventures take her from the “big smoke” to the “back of Bourke”—from the bustling city of Port Bounty, across a continent of vast fields where farmers raise pigs containing cloned human organs, to the lush Cretaceous forests where dinosaurs roam at the bottom of a world.
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Thanks again for your continued support! Enjoy the rest of your summer (or winter, my Strine friends!)
Till next time,
Happy reading!
Raymund
