Archives for 8 February 2007
EP092: The Boy Who Yelled “Dragon!”
Published on 8 Feb 2007 at 2:30 pm.
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Filed under Podcasts, Rated G.
Read ‘EP092: The Boy Who Yelled “Dragon!”’
-->By Mike Resnick.
Read by Matthew Wayne Selznick (of Brave Men Run and Five Minute Memoir).
First appeared in Young Warriors, ed. Tamora Pierce & Josepha Sherman.
Now, this Land was the home of exceptionally brave warriors and beautiful damsels (and occasionally they were the same person, since beautiful damsels were pretty assertive back then). Each young boy and girl was taught all the arts of warfare, and were soon adept with sword, mace, lance, bow and arrow, dagger, and the off-putting snide remark. They were schooled in horsemanship, camouflage, and military strategy. They learned eye-gouging, ear-biting, kidney-punching, and — since they were destined to become knights and ladies — gentility.
So successful was their training that before long enemy armies were afraid to attack them. Within the borders of the Land justice was so swift that there was not a single criminal left. It would have been a very peaceful and idyllic kingdom indeed – except for the dragons.
Rated G. It’s a children’s story. Not recommended for cynical audiences.
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