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February 12, 2006

Bronze Empire - The Dragon of Upways Gorge

by Ferdinand T Cat

When Bruce's children were young, he wrote several short stories based on conservative principles that he would read to them before bedtime. For the past several weeks he has been building a wiki encyclopedia for the world in which the stories take place. The first story is now ready

The Dragon of Upways Gorge

It's about a dragon, a suit of magic armor, and the consequences of monetizing government debt.

This particular story actually began its life as a children's play; however, when Bruce had it read at a local theater, the staff was so horrified by the political implications that they blanked it out. To this day most have only a vague recollection of the incident.

Anyway, click on the link, and if you like the story, be sure to let Bruce know. If you don't like it, don't worry: in a few days the pain will fade and you'll have forgotten the whole thing.

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

Trackposted to The Crazy Stories of Samantha Burns, Point Five Stories, Seven Deadly Stories, Gribbit's Stories, Right Wing Stories, The Uncooperative Stories, Stuck on Stories, The Bullwinkle Stories, Jo's Stories, Wizbang Stories, bRight and Early Stories, and Basil's Tales of Mystery and Suspense.

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Comments

Great story, Bruce. Think you should take another shot at gettin' a play done too.


Posted by: Harrison at February 12, 2006 7:24 PM

Bruce, if you have a collection of these stories that's large enough, it might actually pay to explore the Amazon.com short fiction publication thing. Francis Hamit has commented on his experience doing so over at Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor Musings

There may be some "gotchas" I don't recall from his outline of the process, but still, perhaps worth looking into, cos The Dragon of Upways Gorge is definitely worth wider readership, IMO.

My only complaint about this post about the story is that ya didn't tb a link to one-a my open posts so I'd be sure to find it faster.

:-)

BTW, the confirmation word for posting is once again one of my favs==use it all the time: xfnsubq. Good word. We ought all have it in our working vocabularies. "xfnsubq, a frascillating urt of the mejoes family"


Posted by: David [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 14, 2006 12:39 PM

Ahhh, *sigh*

Forgot to give you the link to Hamit's comments:

http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/mail391.html#Amazon


Posted by: David [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 14, 2006 12:41 PM

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