Shell Shocked and Loving It
When the sun rose in the morning, its rays shown in on two very tired humans wrapped in each other's arms. A few seconds later that changed entirely. It was now one human male, and in the place of the female, there was a rather hard shell. Inside the...
Resetting the Perspective
Huntchy was wishing for a downpour, or a tidal wave, or just about anything that would have cooled his scorched hide. He felt like a hunk of meat suspended over the fire. He was certain he looked awful. He felt awful. He was beginning to see where...
Revelation
It was late in the day before the dragon was sighted flying in from the sea. His wing beat was uneven and he looked tired and defeated. When he collapsed in the sand just where he had taken off, he looked as though he would perish on the spot....
The Day is Just Dragon By
The next morning, there was a bit of a scene at Huntchy's place, though no one could really tell. Jon-Ton and his lady had a wonderful night, after a fitful start. It seems she was reluctant to transform him, and only did so after stepping outside to...
Going Far to Settle a Debt
The man and his mount sat atop the granite ridge, looking down the forested slope to the scene below. It was entertaining, to say the least. He had come this far north at the urging of old One-Who-Bites-The-Wind, medicine man of the Yokuts in the...
Gone Fishing
The next morning found some disturbing noises coming from the chambers presentlyoccupied by the mayor. Huntchy was unafraid, though wary when he pushed openthe doors separating the dragon's room from the rest of the abode. He poked hishead around...
Horse Sense and Dragon Tales
That night found the two, dragon and horse, sitting acrossfrom each other outside under the stars. Huntchy had proved to be everythingthat had been said of him. His stupid act was as brilliant as the rest of hisabilities, which begged the question as...
The Mayor is All Fired Up
He was lying on the ground, too stunned to move. The stuffhe had poured down his throat was surprisingly smooth, for about the firstsecond or so. Then it started burning away his tongue, his tonsils, hisesophagus, his stomach. It was as if the...
A Day on the Town
The next morning brought another change, this time into the weirdest anamorphism hehad yet seen on this world. He seemed to recognize the longer fur, and thepattern of color that ranged down her back. Her face was somewhat elongated buther mouth...
All in a Day's Work
Come morning, an exhausted Jon-Tom and his wife were stillsleeping soundly. The sun was just coming up, peaking through the curtains intotheir bedroom. He fought to ignore the light penetrating his eyelids when heremembered her change was...
His Lordship's First Day
The newly paired humans spent the rest of the day in bed as well as the sum totalof the nighttime hours. When Jon-Tom awoke the next morning he ached from headto toe. He was particularly sore somewhere in the middle. It was the first timein a long...
The Return of Red
The time came when Eve knew Jon-Tom needed something mundane to do. He had spent alifetime with Orath, and he had an equally longer lifetime to spend as theking-under-the-sea. But each of those had been or would be adventures. While hecomplained...