THE SMOKE CREATURE
To be alone is a blessing, sometimes. To have the world to oneself, reposing on an isolated mountain summit when the full moon is rising,...
THAT 52 DEGREES BELOW ZERO STATE OF MIND
At fifty-two degrees below zero, you understand, strange things happened. The mercury in the thermometer had congealed into a ball at the...
HOMO SAPIENS NOCTURNALUS
On the last day of the Cretaceous, a small rat-like creature sits just inside the entrance to her burrow waiting for dusk to deepen so...
COOLING IT ABOVE THE 45th PARALLEL
Pssst. Listen up. Here’s a hot tip for you: Buy land above the 45th Parallel on Earth, any parcel of real estate that’s above the half...
THE MORNING THE ICEBERGS FLEW
(Third in a series) Peppered throughout the low piedmont regions of North Carolina and South Caroline, as well as along the easterly and...
THE YEAR OF TWO SUNS RISING
(Second installment in a series) At low tide on a mud flat along the southern edge of what is now the Indonesian archipelago, a clan of...
OF COMETS AND THE GREAT FLOODS
In central Washington State, within the geologically tortured Channeled Scablands, stand the remains of an ancient waterfall that six of...
PIONEERS ON THE ISLES OF LIFE
On a city street 100 feet from the 210 Freeeway in Pasadena, California, stands a typical Golden State bungalow on a small lot. The home...
LONG LIVE THE TINY HOUSE REVOLUTION
Spur, Texas is a shriveling dry western plains town of 1,000 seventy miles east of Lubbock, given to rearing beef and raising cotton....
THE NIGHT THE STARS FELL
Wooly mammoth sleep standing up. Small calves sleep in a heap between the legs of the adults for protection against the huge American...