PuffDragon: Stories

The Bacon Butler: A magic lamp, a botched wish, and a life changed by bacon.

If you had only a few months to live, how would you mess with people? Would you screw them over or help them out? "In Xanada did Kublai Khan build a stately Palace..." Experimental fiction I wrote for a class.

A Story in the Paranormal military Universe
How would you cope if you were one of the first people in the military to serve openly as a lycanthrope? How would you adapt to the military lifestyle while having to constantly fight the animal within? Willow Puckett has finished her initial flying training and is now entering a combat B-52 squadron. How does she cope with being the squadron’s only lycanthrope, a gruff partner, religious zealots, and an upcoming deployment?

Phoenix Flies
A mutant strain of avian flu becomes a global pandemic Kayla watches the start of World War III. A three way nuclear exchange further reduces the world and Kayla, along with the rest of the survivors, must rebuild from scratch. But from the ashes, she finds a military based life suits her and her skills. But when the population remains constant will she have to give up her hard won new life to become a walking brood mare?

This is the speech I wrote as the guest speaker for the Parshall, ND Memorial Day celebration. I think it was well received and there weren't many dry eyes in the room after I spoke.

You know the basics, Hermes and Thanatos kidnap Persephone for Hades. But this Hades runs an underground sanctuary from nuclear winter and Persephone may be the key to everyone's salvation, even Thanatos

She dreams of him every night and when the light of day evaporates every detail of him, she can still remember the sensations. The tension that draws across her, taut and pulling at her until it snaps in glorious ecstasy every night. And every morning, she wakes, her body remembering what her mind will not.