More Than A Monster - Chapters One And Two
Chapter One When I was young, I was always told our kind once ruled the world. I was held in awe as my parents told me tales of our greatness. How we filled the skies with color and grace, and looked down upon the world from soaring palaces carved...
Pictures In The Snow ( A DitD Christmas Story - A Writer's Portrait )
_Ten Days Before Christmas_ \*\*\*\*\* Snow swirled around The Coyote as he stepped out of the car. He smiled, savoring the chill and the snowflakes against his fur. There was serenity in the snow, in scent of the frozen air, serenity he sought but...
The Devil's Deal - Part Three - Finale
3. \*\*\*\*\*The Pleasant Evening\*\*\*\*\* Ailsa knelt beneath Varcorak's outstretched wing, rubbing oil into the black and green canopy. The dragon's wing membrane was sturdy as leather, but softer and quite warm. Tiny veins pulsed throughout it. A...
The Devil's Deal - Part Two
2. \*\*\*\*\*The Lair\*\*\*\*\* Ailsa rinsed the mud from her dress, then wrung it out and pulled it on. The wet blue fabric clung to her skin. She stepped into her boots and snatched up her pack. Ailsa searched for her sword and knives before she...
The Devil's Deal - Part One
1. \*\*\*\*\*The Opportunity\*\*\*\*\* Sunlight filtered into the cramped cell through rusted iron bars set in mossy stone. Ailsa scraped at a patch of crusty yellow lichen with her boot. Three days imprisonment had reduced her to pondering the...
The Volunteer Maiden, Chapter Ten
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter Ten --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Elyra paced the dragon's treasure room the...
The Volunteer Maiden, Chapter Nine
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chapter Nine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Galvarys padded down the hallway with his minion coiled in his tail. The...
The Dragon In The Dungeon: How Far We Fall
Though not as vast as the wilds of aran'alian, the forest of ghosts was nonetheless a huge swath of forest that in many places was just as inhospitable and just as uninhabited.
DitD 9 Preview
The Dragon In The Dungeon: Installment 9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter One -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Alia Silverrain. You are hereby summoned before The...
A Hatchling's Day
In a small village far from Illandra, a tiny dark colored dragon came bounding down the cobbled lane that led through the marketplace. The little hatchling ran down the street, darting and weaving her way between people, horses, a mule, and small herd...
The Black Collar
the wilds went on forever. he was young. barely even on his own, but like all young dragons the urge to strike out came with the onset of adolescence. and so he wandered the wilds and explored the world around him.
An Unexpected Show
The various local authorities did not always like the mercenary attitudes of the forest ward but in the end they chose to pay up rather than send their own small guard forces out into the wild in search of dangerous criminals or monstrous beasts.