The Way Lizards Die – Fiction

The Way Lizards Die

Excerpt from In Memoriam Sauria (In Memory of Dead Lizards)
An Ecclasiastical Record: Procured, Translated, and Edited by J. Hazard Fitch

Editor’s Note: This excerpt represents a time period approximately 145 million years prior to the present day, and covers a small, prehistoric sub-continent, part of which has become modern Indochina.

:#17,889,317,701. 89mm. Aged two solar years, 117 days; 85 deg. ascension. Striped polecat; see cross ref. 5A-44R13. Seized by tail, bitten along spinal column; immediate paralysis and death.

:#17,889,317,702. 117mm. Aged four solar years, 256 days; 135 deg. ascension. Striped polecat; see cross ref. 5A-44R13. Seized by tail, bitten along spinal column; immediate paralysis and death.

:#17,889,317,703. 101mm. Aged three solar years, 344 days; 141 deg. ascension. Non-venomous constrictor; see cross ref. SS-74B. Asphyxiation; death.

:#17,889,317,702. 76mm. Aged two solar years, 59 days; 96 deg. ascension. Striped polecat; see cross ref. 5A-44R13. Seized by tail, bitten along abdomen; shock, paralysis; death.

:#17,889,317,703. 124mm. Aged five solar years, 12 days; 165 deg. ascension. Striped polecat; see cross ref. 5A-44R13. Seized by head, bitten along spinal column; immediate paralysis and death.

:#17,889,317,704. 126mm. Aged five solar years, 300 days; 66 deg. ascension. Striped polecat; see cross ref. 5A-44R13. Seized by tail, bitten along spinal column; immediate paralysis and death.

:#17,889,317,705. 44mm. Aged one solar year, 2 days; 45 deg. ascension. Striped polecat; see cross ref. 5A-44R13. Seized by head, bitten along spinal column; immediate paralysis and death.

:#17,889,317,706. 112mm. Aged four solar years, 96 days; 144 deg. ascension. Non-venomous constrictor; see cross ref. SS-74B. Asphixiation; death.

:#17,889,317,707. 113mm. Aged four solar years, 160 days; 88 deg. ascension. Striped polecat, see cross ref. 5A-44R13. Seized by tail, bitten along spinal column; immediate paralysis and death.

:#17,889,317,708. 112mm.. Aged five solar years, 15 days; 125 deg. ascension. Striped polecat, see cross ref. 5A-44R13. Seized by tail, bitten along spinal column; immediate paralysis and death.

:#17,889,317,709. 121mm. Aged six solar years, 158 days; 97 deg. ascension. Carnivorous wading bird, see cross ref. 114R-88C. Seized by abdomen, swallowed whole.

:#17,889,317,710. 109mm. Aged three solar years, 352 days; 58 deg. ascension. Striped polecat, see cross ref. 5A-44R13. Seized by tail, bitten along spinal column; immediate paralysis and death

:#17,889,317,711. 104mm. Aged three solar years, 100 days; 99 deg. ascension. Striped polecat, see cross ref. 5A-44R13. Seized by tail, bitten along abdomen; immediate shock and paralysis; death.

:#17,889,317,712. 135mm. Aged six solar years, 27 days; 86 deg. ascension. Non-venemous constrictor, see cross ref. SS-74B. Asphyxiation; death.