Apr 18, 2025
We think we know their story. The asteroid. The extinction. But one person believes that the dinosaurs may have left more than their bones behind.
Genre: Science Fiction, Mystery
Excerpt:
They saw it coming.
And at first they were helpless. Despite how far they’d come in their hundred-million-plus years of existence, they were helpless to stop the asteroid that was headed right for them. So they didn’t stop it.
But they didn’t stay helpless either.
What story or stories am I
revisiting in this episode?
Each
Season 8 episode is a standalone story, but it’s connected to or
inspired by a previous story through a character, a place, an
object, a concept, a continuation of events (ahem, sequel), and so
on.
This story admittedly was an exception to this year’s theme of revisiting previous stories. However, there is a story with a similar enough premise: a mystery surrounding a prehistoric era, and the possibility that something from that era could have survived to the modern age of humans. That Season 4 story is “Age Upon Age of Frozen Sleep.”
MERCH!
Interested in
merch, like mugs and notebooks, featuring my artwork?
Please visit my Store page for updated info on where you can buy:
STORYFEATHER STORE
MY FIRST BOOK (yay)
Ever
wonder how I’ve gotten all these hundreds of stories
written? I have a
method. And I talk all about it in my book called Fictioneer’s Field Guide: A Game
Plan for Writing Short Stories.
It’s now available as an eBook, paperback, and hardcover.
The book title takes you straight to the book on Amazon.
Or you can visit my Store page: STORYFEATHER STORE
The Store page has a sign-up form for my email newsletters. Fictioneering mischief and writing tips. Choose what you want. (Either way, you're choosing high jinks.)
CREDITS
Story: “Note
from a Triceratops” Copyright © 2021 by Nila L. Patel
Narration, Episode
Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel
Music:
“Abstract Vision #3” by ANDREW SITKOV (Intro)
“Fugue For One Synthetic Heart (No Percussion)” by ANDREA BARONI
(Outro)
“Abstract Vision #5” by ANDREW SITKOV (Outro)
TAO & SOUND*
“80s Synth Ambient 01 C”
“80s Synth Ambient 02 E”
ANDREA BARONI
(Cyberleaf Studio)*
“Fugue For One Synthetic Heart (No Percussion)”
“Evolving Cities”
“Ground Control”
“The Longest Year (No Percussion)”
Music by ANDREW
SITKOV (MuzStation Game Music)*
“Abstract Vision #3”
“Abstract Vision #4”
*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.
Music by Tao &
Sound, Andrea Baroni, and Andrew Sitkov is licensed from GameDev
Market
Sound effects from AudioJungle, and GameDevMarket, and Soundly
(through Hindenburg)
Changes made to the musical tracks? Just cropping of some to
align with my narration.
Find more music by Andrea Baroni, Andrew Sitkov, and Tao & Sound
at gamedevmarket.net
Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com
Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. The fossil of a triceratops, seen head on from a three-quarters profile, facing left, is either etched in a sandy stone slab, or is standing in front of the slab. The slab is faintly etched with scratches and fern leaf stems. Watermark of “Storyfeather” along edge of slab at bottom left. The rectangular image is made square with a top and bottom border that display the darkened edges of the main image.