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eBook Category: Fantasy
eBook Description: Humans have feared dragons since the beginning of time. When a journalist visits a dragon imprisoned for theft, she's in for a surprise. This dragon is well spoken, has a slightly different take on the human behaviour, and feels that dragons have been persecuted long enough.

eBook Publisher: Echelon Press, Published: 2007, 2007
Fictionwise Release Date: August 2007

15 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor

Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [1.2 MB], eReader (PDB) [25 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [11 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [11 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [70 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [82 KB], hiebook (KML) [62 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [64 KB], iSilo (PDB) [9 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [12 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [20 KB]
Words: 3131
Reading time: 8-12 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format:  Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
ISBN: 1-59080-574-7

"A tightly-plotted story; a fun take on what the modern dragon might have turned out to be. The reader is not left terrified of a future with dragons in it, which is perhaps a pity."--Liz Simmonds

"Witty dialogue and slightly different take on dragons make this an interesting insight into a dragon's point of view."--Pam Slade

Dragons. The word has always evoked dread in humankind.

Persecuted by adventurers and would-be heroes, we-dragons-were eventually declared extinct. And man rejoiced the death of yet another of Earth's predators. Gigantic reptiles. Fire breathing. Bloodthirsty.

That's one of the reasons why I'm granting this interview. An exclusive tale, straight from the country's top security prison for women.

I need to set the record straight. We are not gigantic and certainly not reptiles. We are not the bloodthirsty ones. As to the fire breathing-but I'm getting ahead of myself.

In the twentieth century, dragons were part fantasy, part legend, but mostly forgotten. I guess it was because man finally began to feel guilty: about the dodo, about the African mountain lion, about the rainforests. And about slaying the dragons. It's one thing to paint St George smiting something that spouts fire, it's quite another to see species after species hunted into oblivion.

So that's the past. And today? Today, the fate of the entire planet is up to me.

The wake-up call sounds and my thoughts return to the present. The interview. My heart beats faster as I pull the black scarf off my eyes and let my pupils adjust to the artificial light that glares at me twenty-four hours a day. I stretch carefully, one limb after another, fold and unfold my wings ten times, then begin the sit-ups. I hate exercising as much as the next girl. Being pregnant, however, leaves me no option but to stay fit.