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Sheriff Bracken’s Field Guide
to Florida Things That Will Kill You
Prepared For Travelers, Newcomers, and Other Persons of Questionable Judgment by Sheriff Thomas J. Bracken
Cypress Run CompanionField GuideIn-Universe Artifact
Being a Practical Handbook for the Identification and Avoidance
of Various Animals, Plants, Weather Conditions, and Other Hazards
Commonly Encountered Within the Vicinity of Cypress Run,
and Likely to Result in an Untimely Death
Free Ebook for Gazette Subscribers
The ebook edition is offered as a free gift to subscribers of the Cypress Run Gazette.
In Cypress Run, survival is less a matter of luck and more a matter of good judgment-specifically, avoiding anything that bites, stings, burns, poisons, or looks at you sideways.
Sheriff Bracken’s Field Guide to Florida Things That Will Kill You is a field manual compiled from Sheriff Bracken’s firsthand experiences in Cypress Run, Florida, and covers all manner of local hazards such as alligators, insects, weather, and other regrettable encounters.
Written with practical advice, questionable Latin names, and very little patience for foolish behavior, this guide is intended for newcomers, visitors, and anyone determined to learn things the hard way.
Set in the world of The Cypress Run Quartet, this short, in-universe companion blends frontier survival with dry, deadpan humor.
As Sheriff Bracken says, “Welcome to Florida. Try not to die.”
— On The Record —
Chicago had its share of dangerous animals—mostly the two-legged kind with bad intentions and worse aim. But down here? You’ve got four-legged problems with teeth, claws, and a genuine interest in whether or not you’re edible.
The good news is most of them would rather avoid you.
The bad news is “most” isn’t “all,” and the ones that don’t avoid you are usually the ones you should’ve been avoiding in the first place.
And just to make things fun, half of them can climb trees. Because apparently God looked at Florida and decided ground-level danger wasn’t challenging enough.
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