Scales and Feathers: A Dinosaur Beach Party

A Satirical Science Fiction Horror set in the American Southwest.A flock of Microraptors must learn to survive in a new world when they are accidentally pulled into the modern world. The Queen of the flock must match wits with a young college student.

What's worse than failing your college extra credit project?

Being hunted down the Rio Grande by a flock of tiny carnivorous dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period. and keep her flock in line as she struggles to find them a new home in a strange world were the snack food has grown and taken over the world. When a newly activated particle collider in Colorado accidentally punches a hole through time, it unleashes something science was absolutely not prepared for: a flock of starving microraptors fleeing extinction itself. Small, feathered, intelligent, and alarmingly bite-sized for apex predators, the tiny dinosaurs escape into the modern world and begin migrating down the Rio Grande in search of food, safety, and somewhere to build a new home. Unfortunately, humanity is already using most of the good nesting spots. 

Annette Mondragon, a freshman just trying to survive college life and earn extra credit, suddenly finds herself running for her life through the chaos of shredded campsites, missing pets, government cover-ups, and highly territorial prehistoric murder-birds. Her rescue comes from Joel Whitmore, an obsessive outsider who witnessed the collider accident and has spent months trying—and failing—to convince anyone the creatures are real. Now, alongside two deeply overworked agents from a shadowy government agency assigned to "contain unusual biological incidents,"

 Annette and Joel must survive the increasingly bizarre migration before the public discovers dinosaurs are loose in the American Southwest. Meanwhile, the exhausted microraptor flock leader is simply trying to hold her strange little family together in a terrifying future world filled with highways, drones, convenience stores, and humans who keep screaming whenever someone gets pecked.

Perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams, Scales and Feathers; A Dinosaur Beach Party combines absurdist science fiction satire, bizarro fiction humor, microraptor dinosaur survival chaos, shadowy government agency sci fi mystery, Rio Grande Valley fiction atmosphere, surviving college absurdity, science gone wrong satire, and dinosaurs in modern times into one wildly original adventure full of danger, weirdness, hope, and tiny claws.

 History escaped.

Evolution is confused.

And finals week is getting worse.

Grab Scales and Feathers; A Dinosaur Beach Party today and join the strangest prehistoric road trip in science fiction.