When a cutting-edge particle collider in Colorado accidentally tears open a doorway through time, a starving flock of microraptors escapes into the modern world. Small, feathered, intelligent, and extremely hungry, the creatures begin migrating south along the Rio Grande in search of food, safety, and somewhere to build a new nest far away from exploding laboratories and screaming physicists.

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Freshman college student Annette Mondragon only wanted enough extra credit to survive her semester. Instead, she ends up trapped in a nightmare of razor claws, shredded backpacks, conspiracy theories, and very aggressive prehistoric poultry. Her only allies are Joel Whitmore—a man ridiculed for claiming he witnessed the collider disaster—and two exhausted agents from a shadowy government agency desperately trying to contain the increasingly absurd situation before the public notices the dinosaurs stealing pets and terrorizing riverside communities.

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Meanwhile, the microraptor flock’s exhausted leader is simply trying to keep her chaotic feathered family alive in a strange and dangerous future world.

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Perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams, Scales and Feathers; A Dinosaur Beach Party blends absurdist science fiction satire, bizarro fiction humor, microraptor dinosaur survival chaos, shadowy government agency sci fi intrigue, Rio Grande Valley fiction atmosphere, surviving college absurdity, science gone wrong satire, and dinosaurs in modern times into one wildly strange adventure about survival, belonging, and trying not to get eaten by tiny prehistoric monsters.

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The dinosaurs are loose. The government is panicking. Finals are next week.