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Groom of the Tyrannosaur Queen, Chapter 1

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Daniel M. Bensen
Sep 25, 2025
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This is the first chapter of Groom of the Tyrannosaur Queen, a time-travel romance with dinosaurs and particle cannons. For the back-of-the-book description and an index of chapters, click here.

The thunder of a thousand cubic meters of displaced air rang the walls of the time machine.

The floor fell away and a pair of dog-tags floated up past her face in the sudden freefall. Herrera, they read, Andrea.

“We have configuration.” Andrea fought the urge to vomit, turned it into a command. “Brace for rotor deployment.”

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