The knight hugged the cliffside. Ice coated his sword and shield.
"I equipped my best fire protection gear!" he wailed.
"Well, that was silly," the dragon replied. "I breathe ice."
"But your scales are red!"
"What has color to do with it?"
"Dragons are color coded! Red means fire! That way, I know how to prepare for battle!"
"And why," asked the dragon, "would we make things easy for you?"
Happy to announce that my short story "Virus Alert" has been published on Every Day Fiction! Just a very short tale about the monsters we create. This one has been kicking around since the W Bush era, so I'm really glad it finally found a home, and in these times of pandemic and paranoia, I feel like it still has a lot of relevance. Why not give it a read? It's not like the government is monitoring you or anything... https://everydayfiction.com/virus-alert-xauriel-zwaan/
#fiction #ScienceFiction #scifi #FlashFiction
We were oot for oor usual dauner roond the toun, Tam and me, and had stopped for a pech at the tap o the hill, whaur they’re plannin tae build eichty new hooses if naebody objects, and probably even if they dae …
—James Robertson, “Bible Talk”
published in THE BOTTLE IMP 3, 2008
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2008/05/bible-talk-by-james-robertson/
