Wizardness

Entry 1, 5 years after Dinosaurs,
I’m not really sure what else to call this entry. I don’t really think “year of our lord”, AD, or Common Era makes sense any longer. PD? Post Dinosaurs, post fuck up? I’m not sure. New Dino Era? NDE, sure, fine. I think that will work.
Maybe the same months and days? Sure.
March 8, 5 NDE Entry 2.
Now that I’ve got that sorted. It’s not like this wasn’t a well predicted situation. I grew up having read Jurassic Park and the much weaker Lost World. I watched all 6 of the movies. I can’t believe they made 6 of them. Ugh.
Despite all. the. fucking. warnings. Malcolm was literally a warning personified (with an amazing set of abs). No one listened in the movies and no one listened in real life, either. You know how in the second movie a living fucking breathing T-Rex shows up out of NOWHERE in LA? Those people, those poor fuckers that ran into that massive confused animal, that was all of us.
I’m sure there was a version of the 3 heroes from the original trilogy in some fashion. We didn’t hear their stories. I still don’t know their stories. That wasn’t us. The whole world were those shocked fucks in LA. Then shocked again when there was a new park. But like those people, we thought it was all gone. We thought the Dinosaurs were dead or in some preserver or some where over the fuck there.
March 10, 5 NDE Entry 3
Power went out for the past two days. I Hadn’t had dinosaur meat before yesterday. Some poor giant idiot of a creature walked into our powerlines and got fried. The mess that giant fucker left in its wake. Shit all over a few cars. One woman was drowned in its piss.
The huge neck landed on a few houses. The tail, in its thrashing, sliced all the balconies from one side of an apartment building. City decided the only sensible thing to do was to carve the fucker up and eat it. That damn thing fed hundreds of people. Meat was interesting. I’ve had alligator, but this was different. It was gamey, but fatty.
Anyway, fuck heads made a couple dino parks, competitors made some, too. They got loose, as they do. Some of those big fucker pterodactyls took out a 787 flying north from Rio up into the US. Took it right out of the sky. It split the plane open mid flight. Ate people right out of it.
Another plane was chased up higher into the sky when it was making an approach in Colombia. That plane got away, no deaths, just a lot of terrified passengers. Colombian airforce took that fucker out.
That raised a whole stink. hearings at the UN and everything. But, because some of us white ‘mericans were hurt in the first attack. They had to go. The rich got to have their fun and hunt these fuckers down. The airforces of several countries worked together to hunt the flying bastards down. Hell kids with drones got involved.
Winter took out some that found their way too far north, those bastards didn’t have feathers like some of the ones that survived the cold. The feathers were interesting, some were as fine as hair, others well, they were full feathers. Really kept those bastards alive.
Anything larger than big ass birds were taken out. We’ve always been good at hunting large animals to extinction. But still, big ass birds, like Emus are still big. That’s still leaving small raptors and similar carnivores. They’re tough to find in the woods.
They were killed off 2 years ago.
March 30, 5 NDE Entry 4
Fuck. It seems that the Everglades have become a winter home to some few species. My car was just trashed by a walking tank. It’s not like I live deep in the interior near the swamps or anything either. They were just heading this way and found my car. Slam! Bash it with your tail. The fucking thing was terrified when my alarm went off. It shit when my airbag exploded. Bang! Tffff splash.
The fucking stupid animal ran directly into the pond in the middle of the town and drowned. We needed two, TWO fucking cranes to get the damn thing out.
Insurance better pay for my car.
God damn.
This wasn’t even what I wanted to write about today…
Ok. The next big problem was the sea creatures. They went after all, and I mean all, sea creatures. They went after submarines. Some even attacked those massive container ships. Those ones needed to go. So another hunt commenced.
Supply chains were fucked. It was like with that pandemic, Covid, I think, all those years ago. The Suez canal was a major problem. The damn things were all over there because of the water temperature.
April 25, 5 NDE Entry 5
I just moved. I’m not sure if I moved to the right place. the area around my last place was drawing more and more dinosaurs. Crazy, kind of like those damn iguanas. Just a good fit for them. Water, trees, fruits, food. It was fine when the herbivores were there. But then we got some small carnivore. Nah, uh uhuh. No thank you. They got my neighbor’s dog.
I got the fuck out of there. Some Investment firm bought my house. I made a nice profit. fuck those firms.
I moved to New Mexico. A little harder, I hope, for those cold blooded fuckers. Yes. i know, there’s a lot of debate over that. Hell there was debate before we brought them back. I don’t care. they’re fucking up my life!
I decided to move to a larger city. Somewhere on the interior of the city too. Farther away from the vector of their attack. I hope.
May 2, 5 NDE Entry 6
I just donated a bunch of money to Colombia. Man, I really didn’t know how bad they were getting fucked. All coastal cities have been evacuated. The waters down there aren’t safe. Big fuck off dinos decided to turn the low lands into their hunting ranges.
The highways aren’t really safe either. These dinosaurs are like elephants, they’ll walk on the easiest routes. So, you got fucking sauropods walking there, then next thing you know, a fucking T-Rex ambles down behind them. Causes some sort of stampede. Buses, cars, carnage. The T-Rex snacks on the left behind.
The military there decided to pull back to major cities. They’ve also worked to establish safe havens in the mountains, like around coffee famers and shit.
the global north runs on Duncans…
~~ Pages Torn~~
January 3, 10 NDE Entry 23

Just like Philly, New York’s been overrun from the ocean. Who would have thought so many massive animals could swim like that. Why would they be swimming up here. It doesn’t make any damn sense.
We’ve been building our ring roads and walls. The river’s still fine to drink from, even if it’s not super safe to swim in. Fishing is a whole other world right now.

I’m now responsible for watching a small sector on the wall in the evening. I’ve gotten two kills, so they want me helping the new voluntolds. I was too old for this shit when I moved from Florida. I was hoping that moving around would keep me safe. We’re up on a mesa for fucks sake. Should be easy to defend.

I’m just glad I don’t need to build any more walls. I just can’t do it any more.

The national labs have got a couple hydroponic stations and some other sorts of experimental food sources set up. Hopefully, we can create some more year round crop space. The crops are mostly to add some balance to all the dino meat we’re eating. We got too much of the damn stuff. I’m so sick of it.

The only nice thing is getting a carnivore from time to time to switch it up. They’re stringy greasy things. great in a stew with some of the compies or one of the ostritch things.

Jan 20, 10 NDE Entry 24

You know, I was just remembering about how things were before. Around this time, we used to inaugurate a new president. I know, the labs were the national labs here, in Los Alamos, but what does that even mean now? Most of the coastal cities aren’t safe to live in, between the storms and the influx from the seas.

The central plains are overrun with a mix of dinosaurs, cows, buffalo, and horses. It’s not really a safe place to live. All the small towns are gone. The big ones are barely holding on. The only people crazy enough to live there are the Native tribes. they swooped in and reclaimed it all. No cars can cross the plains.

Cars, man. has it been that long since I’ve driven a car? its got to be three years. I’d check, but I had to use part of my journal here to light a fire. The only thing holding the country together is under ground internet cables and brave souls manning the substations and internet hubs in the center of the country.

Feb 3, 10 NDE Entry 25

I finally bagged one. I got a big carnivore. I’m so excited. It was one of the rare ones. i don’t even know what it is. But they told me they’d stuff it and put it in the entrance way to my building.

I don’t even know how it managed to scrabble up as high as it did. I’m not sure what it even smelled.

Maybe it got turned around in the canyons down below. I saw it peak up near my wall and just Pop!

the eye burst, then the bullet did its work rattling around that big skull of it. Just shredded the brain.

Damn thing didn’t even fall down the hill. Just held on tight, as if seeing inside our wall was the most critical thing in the world.

~~ Pages Torn ~~

August 23, 15 NDE Entry 203

Forget about all that stuff I wrote yesterday. We’re fine. We’re going to be fine. They finally fucking did it. We’ve got a solid and stable food supply. They announce we have sufficient to feed Los Alamos, Santa Fe, and parts of Albuquerque, if people even still live there.

They’ve passed on the technique to other cities over the past few years. It’s finally paying off. I’m so happy. I got my first vegan burger with lettuce, radaccio, tomatoes, onions, ketchup, mustards, and garlic aoli. Just amazing. The BUN! It was brioche. My god it was like I was in heaven.

Vegan. I never thought I’d say that. We’ve built monuments with the bones of the dinosaurs attacking us the past 10 or so years. Now, we can finally get back to real fucking food.

August 30, 15 NDE Entry 204

I’ve just heard that the US government has designated a number of places sanctuaries and offlimits of US citizen development. Which, no shit. Florida’s been gone for almost a decade at this point. The dinos fucking love it there. The Plains, have been fully anexed by the Native Nations. Surprisingly, the US government is OK with that, except there’s strict treaties around certain things, like the Nukes and keeping the internet running.

I’ve seen pictures of the plains and a few other places where the locals choose to live with the dinosaurs. It’s impressive. They’ve kept predators away and turned the big brutes into farming tools.

Just amazing.

I look at the time i’ve lost in this journal. 15 years. It’s been rough. I’ve pulled most of it out, like my hair. I’m an old man now. I can’t shoot any longer. They took my gun away yesterday. I’ve got the most kills and trophies. I was good at this. I wasn’t really great before all of this. Before the dinosaurs.

I’m not sure what i’m going to be doing now. I remember in the before times, being retired, lead to an early death.

I hope that isn’t the case for me.

I want to go out on my own terms.

October 31, 15 NDE Final Entry 205

I’m sorry to report that Jack, the author of this journal is no longer with us. We had a breach. He was the first one there. I swear he jumped down that bastard’s throat and killed it from the inside.

He went straight down and the Dinosaur choked and fell off the cliff.

We recovered his body. Autopsy indicated, he suffocated.

He will be missed. He was a great man who kept us safe during the most tenuous of times.

Good bye jack. I’ll miss you. I loved you my friend.

~Andy