Thursday, July 27, 2006
How Sauria Came About
Shnakvorum rikoyoch!
Bailey has once again graciously allowed me to return to the keyboard and continue my explorations of Sauria with the wider world. (And I must say, after recent events, I'd rather focus on Sauria.)
I think the best place to start here would be how I came to be writing about, to put it crudely, a world of alien dinosaurs. And judging by most people's reactions when I talk about my story, most assume I'm a spur short of a claw (which by the way are military unit designations within the Karn Imperial Army).
As I left off with my previous post--my first brush with Sauria can be tracked back to a hospital.
You see I was a logger once, and quite content to be so for the most part, until my leg got into a tangle with a 400-lb tree. And though it was a valiant fight, the tree won out in the end, and I was left with a leg full of bone shards.
So I ended up spending quite a bit of time in the local hospital, out of a job, with medical bills piling up and disability running thin, and no chance of me ever working timber again.
Toward the end of my second day in the hospital, I was woken up late one night by a scratching sound. I was pretty groggy from both sleep and pain meds, but I have the distinct image of a sandy-haired boy scratching away at my cast with a little stub of a pencil. I don't remember anything else, and would have written it off as a delusion except for one thing.
When I woke the next morning there was a simple pencil drawing on my otherwise blank cast. It was of a funny looking dinosaur riding a pogo stick. And scrawled underneath in big, childlike letters was a name: Pike.
When I asked the nurse about the boy later, I discovered his name was Oscar, and that he'd been released earlier that morning with his parents after recovering from a bout with pneumonia. That's all I ever learned about him.
But something about his drawing snared my mind. Maybe it was due to the pain medication but as I lay there, looking at Pike on his pogo stick, I began to wonder what his story was. Where did he come from? Did he have any friends? Any enemies? Why was he on a pogo stick?
And as I lay there, agonizing over the story of this simple drawing, some small voice in the back of my mind began wondering . . .
"Is this what it feels like to go insane?"
-- S-Man
Hey, what do these dino-men eat when the go out on the town? Is everyone a meatasaurus or are there vegisaurus’s too?
Great to see you here. Loved reading about the bases of your insanity. LOL! I got those dinosaur decals you ordered. You're right, they're way more detailed than the picture showed. Should work great for your little preject. When do you plan to share it with the rest of the town? ;-)
Bailey, think you can start serving roast Sornt haunch at Java Joint? That just might get me on a plane to come visit.
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