Okay, if you’ve followed me a while, you might have noticed I have a bit of a thing about dinosaurs. I took paleozoology in school. I have Cupcake the Dinosaur living in my home. I feed my dinosaurs chocolate.
And so I was delighted to be included in Rhonda Parrish’s latest Alphabet Anthology, D is for Dinosaur.
Today, the cover is revealed!
Ready?
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 pages stories set in alternate 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 and a girl with wonderful magical powers stumbles across the bones of a giant long-dead lizard. And so much more!
Not gonna lie, I had a good time with my story — the letter Z, if you were wondering. Yes, I’ll let you think about Z and dinosaurs for a while. I did a lot of research and this story went through a lot of re-invention before it finally settled into its current form.
You can add it to your Goodreads shelf now and catch the release in February! I’m excited!
