Humanity spent billions building a particle collider to unlock the secrets of the universe.Instead, it accidentally released tiny flying dinosaurs with anger issues.

When a scientific experiment in Colorado tears open a doorway through time, a flock of desperate microraptors escapes into the modern world and immediately decides the Rio Grande looks like an excellent place to relocate. Unfortunately for humanity, microraptors are clever, hungry, fast, and apparently willing to steal tacos directly from unsuspecting tourists along with the hands attached to them.

College freshman Annette Mondragon was only trying to survive an extra credit field assignment and maybe pass her semester without emotional collapse. Instead, she finds herself running for her life from feathered prehistoric murder-goblins with razor claws and absolutely no respect for personal boundaries.

Her rescue comes from Joel Whitmore, a conspiracy-obsessed drifter who witnessed the collider accident and has spent months trying to convince people that tiny dinosaurs are real. Naturally, nobody believed him because humanity as a species consistently ignores important warnings until something starts eating the neighbor’s cat.

Together—with the reluctant assistance of two exhausted agents from a deeply underfunded shadowy government agency—Annette and Joel must stop the creatures before the situation escalates into a full-scale prehistoric public relations disaster.

Meanwhile, the exhausted microraptor flock leader is simply trying to keep her tiny dinosaur family alive in a terrifying future world full of traffic, drones, gas stations, and humans who panic whenever something screeches at them from a tree.

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 weirdness, Rio Grande Valley fiction charm, surviving college absurdity, science gone wrong satire, and dinosaurs in modern times into one wildly hilarious adventure.

The dinosaurs escaped. The government is panicking. And somebody really should protect the tacos.

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