This is my first submission, so please be don't be mean, but I do welcome feedback. It was the custom of the village in the valley to offer part of each harvest to the dragon that lived in the mountains and protected them. Once every 10 years all the unmarried women of the village were presented to the agent of the dragon for inspection, a human who wa...
When I first started to mature - a boyish girl child becoming a body of soft curves and long legs, I didn't understand how my parents could be disappointed. My mother, for my first few years did not encourage me to so much as brush my hair and I became a bit of a wild child for a few years, Running about with the boys my age like a colt that has never known...
"Beep beep beep beep beep." The alarm clock rang out loudly. "Click." His hand pressed the off button then it fell sagging to the side of the bed. The covers stirred as his feet moved back and forth beneath them. He rolled over onto his back and stretched out his arm and felt the empty place beside him. Raising his head to see that it was empty, he wiped his...
"Wait, wait, wait," Geo said, sticking his finger over Darryl's shoulder to point at the laptop screen. "I thought you said that your Mom boned a dragon named Brash first. Isn't he your dad?" Darryl's nares flushed. "Well, uh, she said that she boned him first. But she started fucking dragons at age, uh, eighteen. I'm eighteen. And she's nearly forty. So,...
Lyara opened her mouth to hail a greeting to the champions, but no words came out. They walked right by her as if she wasn't there. She then realised that she was just an observer to the events from long ago, and would not be able to participate. She witnessed the discussion between Felldir and Hakon, after Felldir first suggested they used the Elder Scroll...
Capture! After the dragon was sealed in Suzumebachi; her reputation changed. She became a feared ninja that was seemingly undefeatable. Where she used to lose to 10 or so Oni and ninja; but now; now Suzume could take on a hundred with no problems at all. When she used to fall under the control of ninja's jutsus; Suzume was now the one in control. The power...
Inside a tall tree, a little old man, whose beard, white as snow, touching his round belly, sat in a small wooden rocking chair. At either side of him on the floor sat two little children. A boy and a girl, with cheery smiles upon their faces. "Tell us a story Grandfather!" the little girl pleaded. "Yeah tell us a story!" The boy chimed up. The old man chuck...
In the village of Damansk, Fall was a time of rejoicing for the village, at least for most. For anyone with a daughter or loved one of marriageable age not yet promised, it was a time of secret fear. Fall was the time of sacrifice for the people of Damansk. Each year the dragon who lived on the mountain would take one young woman and 5 head of cattle. Ann th...
(Council of Heralds Room, Val Royeaux, Two Years Ago) As Jean-Marc Watched his Father beam with pride as he read the Scroll that thw Council of Heralds had produced to them, he knew at once his Life would Change Dramatically, for good or ill. That was when his Father passed him the Scroll, and it read: This Document is To Ratify that The Durotellian Family i...
The individual words the priest droned were as meaningless to Alyce as the ancient runes carved into the dark rock at her back but taken together she knew their import. I had thought to see a few more summers before I heard my last rites. As a princess of the blood, she had always expected a somewhat longer and more comfortable future. True, she knew her ul...