Dragons’ Truth
Please welcome Teel McClanahan III to the site, with his young-adult fantasy tale Dragons’ Truth. As a special bonus, we’re releasing all eight episodes at once, so you can decide your own schedule!
When two young boys decide to skip school and seek adventure one day, they end up finding much more than they ever bargained for. More than the dragon and the mountain of riches they see at first, one of the boys finds the entire course of his life changed.
That boy, Larry, finds himself at the center of an adventure bigger than anything he’d ever dreamed of. And when Larry’s continuing adventure begins to effect his schoolwork, and then his teachers and his entire school, Larry’s not sure what he’s gotten himself into. When the effects of that seemingly innocent day begin to spread throughout - and then to threaten - his entire nation, Larry is forced to take action or face the destruction of the entire human race as a result of a single day of hooky.
Join Larry as he grows from a little boy into the last chance for survival that humanity may have, and find out just how complicated a happy ending can become…
June 20th, 2008 at 3:25 am
Great book concept and narration, it just begs to find out who the kid was though…
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
I made it to the end because there’s a lot of good stuff here. However, starting with Episode Three, Ghadshyk became preachy and long-winded, and not only got away with it but was admired for it. That was hard to believe.
Oddly enough though, the thing that annoyed me the most (and kept throwing me out of the story) was the way the schools were presented. I’ve been interacting with my local schools for years, and I just could not accept the progression of the new idea through the schools. So it might work better in the story without so many details. Schools are bureaucracies, and nothing spreads through a bureaucracy that fast, except maybe the flu.