Tremaine was an otter who would do anything to be comfortable. He used fluffy cottonwood seeds to line his hole in the rocky river wall. When the river roared too loudly, he tucked wet leaves in his ... [+]
Dawn Vogel has written for children, teens, and adults, spanning genres, places, and time periods. She lives in Seattle with her awesome husband and their cats. "Dinosaur Seeds" is in Short Circuit #12, Short Édition's quarterly review.
I find Jackie in the garden, digging holes with a stick in a section of the flowerbed that's gone to weeds. "Whatcha doing, kiddo?""Planting dinosaur seeds," she says, beaming up at me. She uncurls her fist to show me five dull pebbles, each one slightly elongated so it bears a faint resemblance to an egg.She's four, so I play along, crouching beside her. "Oh, yeah? What kind of dinosaurs are going to grow from those?"She giggles. "It's a mystery!"Jackie soaks up vocabulary like a sponge. "Mystery" is one of her new favorite words."Do you remember what we learned about plants?""They need lots