Once it soared, glorious.
Now watery eyes observe him.
He holds out his pipe. They played this game when it was new hatched – until his eyebrows were singed clean off.
There is a rumbling. A wispy flame ignites the tobacco, and a glimmer flickers in those eyes.
A dragon’s smile.
Brian Maycock lives in Scotland. He has work forthcoming in the British Fantasy Society’s Horizons magazine.
Panicked screams rang out, but Mylo didn’t register them. He took another bucket from the human chain and poured it onto the flames swallowing the barn. Destruction and chaos enveloped them. Mylo glanced at his tiny pet and had no regrets.
No one ever said it’d be easy breeding dragons.
Beth Gaydon is a work-from-home mom in Tennessee. She raises dogs, but they rarely set the barn on fire.