Poor Little Warrior!
by Brian Aldiss
You are reading an artsy story, told in the second-person, about a time traveler from AD
2181 who hunts a brontosaurus.
Time for listening to the oracle is past; you’re beyond the stage for omens, you’re
now headed in for the kill, yours or his; superstition has had its little day for today;
from now on, only this windy nerve of yours, this shakey conglomeration of muscle
entangled untraceably beneath the sweat-shiny carapice of skin, this bloody little urge
to slay the dragon, is going to answer all your orisons.
“Poor Little Warrior!” by Brian Aldiss, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1958.