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The Truth About Love and Lancets
“There weren't always dragons in the Valley. I should know. In the days when I was born, it was called the Hudson River. The river flowed in two directions, searching for its looted pearls. The Palisades stood its ground against the iron towers of Manhattan. Then one day, all of that ended. The Black Hole Attrition occurred, and nothing was the same,” Cox said. “All of this happened decades before you were born.”
By Zee Dempster4 years ago in Fiction
The Experiment
“There weren’t always dragons in the Valley.” KatLynd leaned back in the saddle, knowing this was going to be another one of JelDarian’s unprompted lectures.
By Kerry Duncan4 years ago in Fiction
Who We Are
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. Mere months ago the Washington monument stood tall where the colorful creatures swoop low and trample now. The marble obelisk nothing more than rubble beneath their claws, cracking and chipping with each landing. It was one, then five, and more arrived with each passing day. Each unique in color and shape, with their own special abilities, which they exhibited on live broadcasted television. Their leader, Signe, broke the terrified silence first.
By Arielle Irvine4 years ago in Fiction
The War Machine
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. The first eggs fell to Earth as meteors more than fifty years ago. The locals who found them were overjoyed, thinking they'd had valuable space minerals land in their backyards. There was precedent for such excitement, certain space minerals were highly valuable in the defense and consumer electronics industries. As soon as the first egg went onto an online auction site, however, the Government got involved. They are usually quick to lay claim to things other people have already claimed ownership of. All told, three-hundred and fifty-two eggs were mapped and charted to have landed in the relatively small strip of land that became known as Dragon Alley.
By Maxie Ray4 years ago in Fiction
Project DRAGN
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. What made it worse for Gideon, though, was that he had put them there. He brushed his hand over the fingers of an enormous fern, its waxy green skin echoing the last remnants of afternoon light that managed to weave their way through the dense forest canopy above. Only a few months ago, the ferns had crumbled to dry powder at the same touch. They had also been about seven times smaller. Now they towered over him along with the rest of the plant life, like underbrush for a giant.
By Alex Schotzko4 years ago in Fiction
Across the Mountains
There weren't always dragons in the Valley. A long time ago, the Valley had been a part of a large continent, known as No'Paga. One long night, a giant eruption exploded the peace the inhabitants of the Valley had known. Thrusting forth from the surface of Rathe, giant mountains imposed upon the sky where a red moon hung as an ever silent observer.
By Michelle Weir4 years ago in Fiction
The Underbelly
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. Anyone that knew me would never have thought I’d become one. The quiet, reclusive, conflict-avoidant wall flower...no, definitely not me.
By Aley Way4 years ago in Fiction
The Visitor
No one can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say, but sometimes the creatures in the vacuum of space can hear the screams of those who live beyond their world, even if the screams are just coming from the inside.
By Joe Patterson4 years ago in Fiction
Resistance
There weren’t always dragons in the Valley. For that matter, there weren’t always dragons. As I look out over the scorched and barren landscape, it occurs to me I might well be the only person left who remembers what it was like here before they came.
By L. Ann Rucker4 years ago in Fiction
Dragon's in Flathead Valley
Chapter 1 There weren’t always dragons in the valley. But there are now. They and their riders came out of the clear blue sky. I will never forget the day they simply appeared. I was coming out of Safeway with my earbuds in. You know we as humans are so obsessed with technology. My audiobook was coming in nice and clear so the world could pass by with its droning buzz. They were just there. A rainbow retinue nearly blotting out the sun.
By Chantae Harding4 years ago in Fiction
Love Magic
“There weren’t always dragons in this valley, it’s said that there was a Goddess many years ago who fell “madly” in love and during a battle the love of her life tried to kill her. She was angered and killed him; dragons grew here from her blood fueled with everlasting burning pain” The flowers thin golden stem a foot and a half, with two petals half a foot Purple closer to the stem and Golden.” the Flowers looks like the land was burning from fire” the man said to the woman as they sat in the field enjoying lunch admiring the Dragon flowers from afar with their town about two miles way.
By Levert Frederick 4 years ago in Fiction
The Dragon Whistlers
The Dragon Whistlers Chapter 1 'There weren’t always dragons in the Valley'. Now is the time and place for the flying green-eyed wizard huffing puffing, gizzard blizzard, chiseled fire breathing, fizzling dragons to make another entrance... They never went away. My guess is that they will come in disguise but not above where our imagination can look into their eyes and recognize the heroes of yore. I have missed seeing them, in this barren desert. Where are you my friends? My childhood memories yearn for the awkward freedom of imagination".
By Zel Harrison4 years ago in Fiction