Read Smash Burgers now!The title obviously makes sense once you’ve read the story, but I’m curious how you came up with it because it still is a bit cheeky, in a way.It was actually the last line of the story that helped me find the title. It was one of those lines that came to me immediately after I conceived of...

He bellowed so loudly in frustration that he swore he felt his rage shake the earth. The braver souls in the vicinity recoiled from the sheer force of the sound, while those less courageous fled outright. He knew it was likely in his own worst interest, and would ultimately make his evening even more difficult, but...

A Bedtime StoryThe beginning of the end starts when an infant Saurolophus squishes some nameless prehistoric fish, and for the first time, a dinosaur cries.Worse, the crying turns the Saurolophus into a Kaiju, and each time a Triceratops blinks the Saurolophus is larger, and larger, and larger, until the...

Hello again! The end of August and beginning of September has been quite busy for us here at Foofaraw HQ. Our Best of Strange Fiction anthology for 2025 is now officially out in the world and available everywhere books are sold online; we launched our special guest-edited and themed September issue (and have a bunch...

Read Small Creatures Among Great Beasts now!Were you a big dinosaur kid growing up?I was a dinosaur maniac from about two years old: I guzzled picture books about them. Tricaretops were my favourite and still are: I mean, three horns and a built-in shield⁠—that’s evolutionary perfection. My family encouraged me in...

66 Million Years BC: the Chicxulub meteor misses Earth. It does not trigger a climate-destabilising dust cloud, and the extremity of subsequent ice ages is therefore blunted. The era’s megafauna migrate, survive and evolve, while new animals⁠—such as primates⁠—emerge.Last moon I was declared a man. Tonight is my...

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and in attempts to spread their spirituality, robots, left to their own devices for half the current definition of eternity, are in the process of uploading the last reels of humanity to their brains. to check the algorithm, and because most dinosaurs are green, the robots start with the olive branch of green-haired...

Once or twice, when I was a kid, I ran away from a T-Rex. I got inside just in time to press a double-hung door closed with my back. The ground shook with each step the dinosaur took towards me, but it became even scarier when the world fell silent. I woke up from the nightmare each time (apologies for the...

]media guideTrying something new this month and shifting the media guide to monthly. We will still cover all the releases for the month, but the format will be a bit different, and more of it will be exclusive to our paying subscribers including a new TV Guide that you can download and print out to follow along all...

(CAMERA zooms in on Earth, on North America, on the state of Illinois, on the city of Chicago, onto a crowded street on which The Top Hat Tavern is located.)(VOICE OVER begins:) On Earth, there exists a most extraordinary species. With its intricate social behaviors and bizarre mating rituals, the magnificent...

—Ellie Black