Blizzards and Dragons #fiction #fantasy #dragons

“Can’t we go out and play in it?” Drag looked at me with that hopeful look.

“No, it’s too cold and the snow is coming down really fast. I don’t think it would be safe even for a baby dragon.” I looked out our big glass door watching the snow cascade.

“I could heat it up with fire like last time.” I could tell Drag really wanted to go explore.

“Last time it got in the  news. They thought it was the beginning of a weather disaster. Don’t you remember daddy got really mad.”

“I remember. I was hoping you had forgotten.”

“Oh Drag,” I put my arms around my big pet’s neck, “there will be lots of snow to play in when it stops.”

“Really?”

“Yes plenty and it will be around for days or weeks. Let’s go play an indoor game.”

“Okay, I get to be green…”

 

Snow days are a challenge when you are trying to raise a dragon in the 21st Century.

 

Search for Fairies #fiction

I had just gotten to the good part of my dream when I heard dragon footsteps. No they weren’t part of my dream they belonged to my pet dragon.

“Em.” I could hear a giggle in his throat. “It’s raining pink outside. It’s sooo pretty.”

I opened the door and out rushed my impulsive pet. “Whoosh” went wings that were still getting acclimated to flight.

“Invisible!!!” I shouted. The big green animal vanished. “Thank you.”

What seemed like hours later, I heard a knock on the door. Breathless, Drag waddled in for a huge bowl of Cheerios topped with bananas.

“I’m making pancakes.”

“Mmm, I’d love a stack.”

Drag was not happy with puppy chow as a baby dragon so when he started eating pizza, we thought any food was better than giving him a taste of  livestock.

“Ok, I’m putting blueberries in them.”

“Oh yummy.”

“So how was the flight?”

“Oh Em, it was like when we chase bubbles. The pink blossoms fluttered and played with me before they fell to the ground. They stirred dragon memories of fairies.”

“Hmmm maybe that’s what fairies would look like if we could see them.”

“You mean there are still fairies?”

“I don’t think I exactly said that.”

“Come on Em this is a finding fairies kind of day.”

So after eating pancakes, we went on an invisible flight to look for fairies. “Drag, maybe these are fairy dresses.”

“Yes, I think you are right. Now to find the creature that wears pink cherry dresses.”

Make believe is much more fun when you are raising a dragon in the 21st century.

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Do you believe there are fairies that wear cherry blossom dresses?

 

My Dragon Just wanted to Play #fiction

“I hate staying indoors all day, Em,” my pouty dragon stomped his heavy foot.

What Drag didn’t know was that I felt exactly the same way.

“Daddy said it’s so cold that there isn’t much air to breathe.”

“Well that doesn’t make sense.” His eyes rolled.

I shrugged my shoulders glad for once that I didn’t have a little brother; a little dragon was enough.

I could see his mind working. “Okay what if we go outside and I warm up the air, Em!”

“Mmm, I don’t know. If it’s too cold for kids to go out to school, it’s…”

“It could work, Emily. Let’s at least try.”

My good friend has a big german shepard puppy who always wants to go for walks, but she doesn’t know how lucky she is that he can’t talk.

“Ok Drag, you win but you have to do it in invisible mode.”

So we went outside while everyone else was bundled against the cold. We made snow angels,  a big snow man, and played’ catch the dragon.’

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“Hmm that’s strange,” dad said as he walked in the door. “Em, did you by any chance do anything crazy with Drag today?”

“Ummm no, dad.” I looked very innocent. aAfter all where is the harm in playing in the snow?

“How about you, Drag?”

Drag looked down just a little bit guilty.

“I thought so…” He stroked his chin. ‘Who would I call? Geo intelligence, the weather bureau…?’ 

The next day on the front page of the newspaper the headlines read: “Unusual Global Warming Phenomenon in Springfield County.”

“Dad what happened?” It was getting hard to not look guilty for stuff that happened because of Drag. “I promise all we did was play out in the snow.”

“Em, there was a gaseous cloud over the county that grew and grew with an orange glow. Some people thought it was a weird weapon.”

I chuckled. “Well Drag decided to make the air warmer so there was oxygen to breathe. We couldn’t see the cloud I promise.”

“Oh my” dad chuckled to himself. “No one was hurt. So everything is fine.”

Raising a dragon in the 21st century is full of unseen challenges…

 

 

 

Dragon Steam #elements #poetry #dailypost #H20

I am a stranger to the ice

as my feet slip twice

I am taunted to stand

I look beneath me

What is this element

that appears like glass?

I make a test

I breath a yellow spark

just a tease

it pools beneath my feet

Am I to now swim in the cold?

I call upon a bluer flame

in a salza like dance

it trembles to the surface

escaping terra

billowing upward

red dragon smile

as I create steam in the sky

 

For this week’s writing challenge, take on the theme of H2O. What does it mean to be the same thing, in different forms? 

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Snow Dragons #fantasy #fiction #winter

“Em, it’s all white outside.”

“Yes Drag, it’s called snow.”

“What’s it like?” my curious dragon eyed the white crystal stuff

“Well let’s go outside and see.” I pulled my snow boots on then my gloves.

“Where are my boots?”

“Drag, they don’t make snow boots for dragons. Sorry.” I was trying not to giggle.

“I don’t have any dragon memories of walking in snow.”

“Well let’s go make some memories.” I pushed him outside the door glad that he remembered to make himself invisible before the neighbors saw us.

“Ohh it’s cold!” I knew he was grinning.

“Eat some.”

“Mmmm it’s like ice cream without flavor.” Just then I felt a big stream of air pass me.

“Not Fair…” I yelled to the sky.

While I had to tromp my way through the snow, my pet dragon was flying above the snow laden trees.

I realized there would be no snow dragons today…

 

Production Mode #amwriting #dragons #fiction

 

“Emily what’s a production?” Drag asked me with a serious look.

“Drag its a word for making something. We are making a book about you.”

“So what does it take to do that?” He squinted his eyes hard trying to think.

“Well, we have all the stories about you that I’ve written” I started counting on my fingers.

“And dragon facts…”

“Yes and dragon facts. Now we will give our ideas to an artist so she can make drawings of  you.”

“Pictures of meeee?” Drag did his happy dragon dance.

“Yep. I even have some baby pictures of you. I think we’re going to put a baby picture on a sticker and maybe a t-shirt.”

“A t-shirt for us to wear?”

“You want a t-shirt of yourself?”

“Of course I do. I can advertise the book for you.”

Emily scratched her head. “Hmm

“I can advertise when I’m invisible.”

“Oh Drag, you are such a good helper. We will see what you can do to help. Either way you’ll get a T-Shirt.”

“Yipee” Drag flew down the hallway to his playroom that was getting smaller by the day.

Things are always more complicated than you thought they’d be when you are trying to raise a dragon in the 21st Century!!!

 

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For those of you who have visited in the past (and new people) we are sorry we had to take all our stories off the site as we might be using them for our book “Bringing Up Drag – Raising a dragon in the 21st Century.” We will keep you posted on our progress. Well Emily will tell you how we are doing.

Cheers

Follow the Leader #pipeline #Ukraine #poetry

Follow the Leader #pipeline #Ukraine #poetry.