A crocodile skull with empty eye sockets and dagger teeth grins ghoulishly at us amidst flip flops, plastic sprite bottles and styrofoam peanuts. I drag my nine year old son away from the dead crabs and dried coconut husks towards the penitentiary on Isla Coiba off the Pacific coast of Panamá which once housed murderers,…
Research is all part of this story. Diamonds and Mammoth fossils can be found in Wisconsin.
Pages on the Tongue-Episode 4: “The Yellow Diamond Is Not the Gem” with Michelle Murray on Pages on the Tongue Podcast Episode 4 (December 2024) “The Panamanian Pollera” Legacies: Whatcom Writes 2024 Anthology of Stories and Poems. Borderline Press (2024) “Elephant’s Head” https://amazon.com/Science-Imagination-stories-Falconer-Museum/dp/1916572995 Science and Imagination: True Stories from the Falconer Museum. Christaine H. Friauf….