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    Giant Dreams and Dragons
    Giant Dreams and Dragons
    Giant Dreams and Dragons
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    Giant Dreams and Dragons

    By James R. Womack

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    Professor Buford Doss, never got the respect or credit he deserved. Such prestige went to what he insisted were inferior peers and even mentally dense graduate assistants. But Professor Doss had a plan to remedy all of that. A big plan. A miraculous plan. And he was anxious to set it in motion, even it meant engaging in a bit of deceit. You may say he had no intention on 'dragon' his feet on the matter. No siree. Not Dr. Buford Doss. So he ends up hoofing it deep into the wilderness. Guided by a drug smuggler hunting forest ranger armed with a rifle that's more like a cannon. He gets to work on his miracle project while being dangerously close to armed drones assisting the ranger in weeding out the weed growers. Then he experiences success by failing. A paradox that seems to reflect his life in general. Now, about those dragons, he discovers he shouldn't have messed with them in the first place.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJRW
    Release dateDec 20, 2014
    ISBN9781942574552
    Giant Dreams and Dragons
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    James R. Womack

    James Womack is a Deaf writer who writes mainly science fiction short stories. Sometimes he dives into contemporary shorts on touchy social issues. Mostly, he just likes telling stories that a bit off the beaten path.

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      Giant Dreams and Dragons - James R. Womack

      Giant Dreams and Dragons

      James R. Womack

      Published by JRW, 2014.

      This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

      GIANT DREAMS AND DRAGONS

      First edition. December 20, 2014.

      Copyright © 2014 James R. Womack.

      ISBN: 978-1942574552

      Written by James R. Womack.

      Giant Dreams and Dragons

      James R. Womack

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      Giant Dreams and Dragons

      Copyright © 2014 by James Womack

      Back cover credit: James Womack

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the author.

      ISBN: 978-1-942574-55-2

      Contents

      Part 1: Motivation

      Part 2 - Ranger Jerry

      Part 3 - Unscrambled Eggs

      Part 4 - Triumphant Failure

      Part 1: Motivation

      Not all miracles are blessings; some of them kill people. I know this because I watched one kill a man. A man who was the closest thing to a friend I have had since my father died twenty years ago. You see, I had a dream come true. Some might say it was a miracle, but it was more like a nightmare. I killed the miracle. I killed the dream, but I’m not sure it stayed dead. Perhaps I should explain how all this got started.

      April 8, 2022, the people I worked with were ignoramuses and imbeciles who fancied they were scientists-ha! All they did was waste grant money on research projects of little value to anyone other than themselves. My father always told me that I should aim high. He said to achieve anything worthwhile you must think outside the boundaries of the ordinary. I wanted to be recognized as the greatest bio-engineer of all time. I didn’t deserve wasting my life as a glorified lab assistant to imbeciles who lacked even a semblance of imagination.

      My...I must call them my colleagues because I did work with them, by no means were they my peers. My colleagues were insignificant people with insignificant goals. They were too ordinary in their thinking and had no dreams that were their own. Yet they derided me when I proposed my project. They only saw how supposedly

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