“The world’s a boring place,” my ageing father frequently says.
He’s wrong. It’s still full of mystery and wonder, if you just look. “You should read the papers more,” I suggest. “Today scientists found some dinosaur tracks in Mongolia.”
“Nothing exciting about more fossils,” he harrumphs.
“These are fresh prints.”
Michael is an Australian-based writer whose work has appeared in several anthologies and online magazines, but not yet in the geological record.