1982 — inspired by The End of Oak Street. You are a struggling writer given one week to rewrite the ending of your dinosaur-fantasy novel, leaving you obsessively working at your typewriter while barely noticing the strange events outside. One night, your house shakes as something enormous passes by. From your third-floor window, you discover a living Alamosaurus and theropods attacking the neighborhood. Terrified, you retreat into your reinforced home and survive on canned food for two weeks, unaware of what happened to the rest of the world. Then someone pounds on your back door. Pistol in hand, you discover Jefferson, your reclusive Vietnam veteran neighbor, battered but alive.