Jul 4, 2026
A stegosaur scientist uses her
own body in her experiments to achieve a physical feat that seems
impossible for a dinosaur of her kind…flight.
Genre: Science
Fiction
Excerpts:
“Modifications! Glint, what you’re proposing is more than
modification.”
“How?”
“Magnets!”
“Sometimes people don’t know
they need an invention until it’s invented.”
“Know your limits, Glint.
I’m trusting you to stop if you reach them.”
“But can it be
done?”
The Wheel of Fiction
Turns. What did it land on this
time?
Each Season 9 story
follows a theme chosen by the Wheel of Fiction. Thirteen spokes.
Eight are the themes from previous seasons. One is “Turn Again.”
One is a wild card. And three are covered in question marks and
will be revealed when the wheel lands on them.
See a story trailer and a
(satisfying) video of the wheel turning here: Flight of the Stegosaur
This episode landed on S.T.E.A.M. Science,
Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics.
Find more stories and episodes
inspired by challenges here: Year of
S.T.E.A.M.
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CREDITS
Story: “Flight
of the Stegosaur” Copyright © 2022 by
Nila L. Patel
Narration,
Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel
Music:
“Fugue for One
Synthetic Heart” by ANDREA BARONI (Intro)
“Ground Control” by ANDREA BARONI
(Outro)
“Abstract Vision #5” by ANDREW
SITKOV (Outro)
Music by JONATHAN
SHAW
“Spinning
Tavern”
“Checking
Inventory”
“Midnight
Creeping”
“A Bitter
Hope”
“A Dream of First
Flight”
Music by ANDREA BARONI
(Cyberleaf)
“Fugue for One Synthetic
Heart”
“Ground Control”
All tracks are part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.
Music by Andrea Baroni,
Jonathan Shaw, and Andrew Sitkov is licensed from GameDev
Market
Sound effects from
AudioJungle,
GameDevMarket
Changes made to the
musical tracks? Just cropping of some to align with my
narration.
Find more music by Jonathan Shaw,
Andrea Baroni, and Andrew Sitkov at gamedevmarket.net
Find more music by Jonathan Shaw at
jshaw.co.uk
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stories by Nila at storyfeather.com
Episode Art
Description:
Digital drawing.
Hovering in the sky, left side view of a stegosaur-like dinosaur
with a bulky body, claw-like toes, bony spikes on the tail, a long
neck, protruding snout and bony plates along the back. The
dinosaur’s mouth is open in what appears to be a smile, eye looking
at the viewer. From within the middle of the bony plates emerge
pairs of delicate veined wings like those of a fly or beetle.
Watermark of “Storyfeather” along spine behind neck.