Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)

by Jodi Taylor

‘Edward found me – in a bar, obviously.

There are, or will be, people who think History can be manipulated, made more profitable.

Of course

‘We know that now is a vulnerable time for St Mary's. Expenditure is massive, there's no financial return, and losses are high.’

‘It was nearly an emotional moment, but we took it like men.’

Haha Real men don’t cry.

thought about how he’d left everything behind to do this. I wondered if he had leapt at the chance to escape his past. I think I would have. No, I already had.

The guy had real articulacy issues.

Is that a word?

Naked in the wild.

a blaster

a stun gun

pepper...

Special ...

pyroclastic flows.

Would have swallowed a lot of insects.

Maiasaurae,

Troodons

‘Ankylosaurus,’

We were on Day 74 of a near-perfect mission.

Ewww, yuck.

It's always been a question of trust.

trust to luck.

And then the built-in female guilt kicked in. Had I somehow given him the impression …? Was it all my own fault?

Haha

I had no proof. And nothing had actually happened. It would be my word against his. The age-old female dilemma.

smarm

God help me, I took all this meekness at face value.

They warned us over and over at St Mary's, but until it actually happens to you, you can have no idea of the speed and silence of a raptor attack.

Chilling

Cretaceous road rash.

Maybe I should be looking at office jobs again.

Haha

Sussman being Sussman; alternately loved and loathed.

How could I have let this happen?

She like to blame herself, but it doesn’t last.

recrimination, grief, and regret

for the first time in my life I missed someone,

this work had to be done and only I could do it.

Haha - see p.

And a rotting one, at that.

Data. Unique, priceless, hard-won data.

Torosaurus

Parasaurolophus

Andrew Ankylosaurus,

raptors,

velocira...

Proceratops;

Haha

Helen

Nurse Hunter

Mrs Mack

Yay!

Haha simile

Dr Bairstow

Sometimes I think I’m too stupid to live.