ONCE UPON A TIME, there was a dragonslayer named Steven George. When Steven is sent by his village to slay the fearsome beast, he suddenly realizes that he doesn't know what a dragon looks like, where it lives, or how to slay it. But Steven's village has fostered the talent of telling tales. Steven trades once-upon-a-times with the people he meets along the way and each remarkable story leads him a step closer to understanding the true meaning of his quest.
Size: 299 KB (57,327 words)
Genre: Young Adult
Sex Contents: No Sex
Tags: Fiction, Fairy Tale
Review by bill9900 [other reviews by bill9900]
Reviewed:
Wayzgoose has given us a story in the spirit of the Arabian Nights, but I suspect he has already lost his virginity, though perhaps not to a sultan.
"Steven George & the Dragon" is a droll read through a number of creative "once upon a time" chapters that make up the story.
As usual, this story is extremely well written with no glaring typos or grammatical inconsistencies to distract your enjoyment (and no, I'm not the "grammar police").
Here is a sample of a paragraph referring to Steven George, the Dragonslayer, (and later in the story referred to as the Dragonmaster), that really spoke to me:
"I see a lost soul,” said the gypsy. “Everything he thinks he needs has been taken from him and he has found that all he has is what he is. He journeys the endless road, no longer knowing from whence he has come nor, indeed, where his fate will lead him. He draws from great and sometimes sad experience and lore to guide him through a world that is strange and sometimes unkind to him. Yet he continues on, for all roads lead to his dragon.”
Only rarely does one find writing this good on SOL.
Hope you find the story and its chapters (parables) entertaining, as I did. I highly recommend it.
