About A Survivor’s Guide to the Dinosaur Apocalypse, Episode Five: “Elegy”:
“It—it’s not what I expected,” said Essie over my shoulder, as Blucifer whinnied and Kesabe pissed on the nearest tree; as the overgrown rancher sat—its nearly flat roof baking in the sun … its slat fence partially collapsed.
“It’s not a teepee; if that’s what you mean,” I said, and dismounted.
“I didn’t expect a teepee,” said Essie, as I helped her down. “It’s just that—it’s so white. Like Wally and the Beav are gonna come running out any minute.”
“My father didn’t believe in reservations,” I said, leading Blucifer to a bush, abandoning the reins. “He thought they were museums full of defeated people; just so many relics, withering in the sun. He wouldn’t even take us there to visit our grandparents; they had to come to us.”
“That must have sucked.”
“No, actually—it really didn’t,” I gripped the doorknob and paused, wondering if I was really up to it; if I was fully prepared for what I might find. “It taught us—my brother and I—to see ourselves as individuals, not a collective—and a defeated one at that. Maybe that’s why neither of us wound up pickled in Thunderbird.”
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Wayne Kyle Spitzer (born July 15, 1966) is an American author and low-budget horror filmmaker from Spokane, Washington. He is the writer/director of the short horror film, Shadows in the Garden, as well as the author of Flashback, an SF/horror novel published in 1993. Spitzer’s non-genre writing has appeared in subTerrain Magazine: Strong Words for a Polite Nation and Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History. His recent fiction includes The Ferryman Pentalogy, consisting of Comes a Ferryman, The Tempter and the Taker, The Pierced Veil, Black Hole, White Fountain, and To the End of Ursathrax, as well as The X-Ray Rider Trilogy and a screen adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows.”