Copies of The INK are available absolutely free. The Lone Balloon is a poem that was published in The INK , the arts newpaper of Southern New Mexico, back in September 2000. As with my short story, I'll send you a copy of this issue on request. You will need to search for my name. I have not purchased any of their products so I simply cannot speak for their quality.
Dragons are big, ferocious beasts that breathe fire.
They eat people, but the fuel for their fire-breathing is very useful in lamps and for other things. For years, I've been telling people, if you write fantasy or science fiction, you've got to do new things rather than just rehash the same old stuff. This is the story where I put my money where my big mouth is. Let me know what you think when the story appears. This story is a dark science fiction piece that was inspired by Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago .