The Ugliest Dragon and Other Stories

By L. David Holbrook Jr.

The introduction:
These some of my favorite stories, and some of readers' favorites too.
"The Ugliest Dragon" is a fairy tale and a love story, and one of my "lives lived" stories. The ending still causes a lump in my throat every time I read it. I came up with a place to be a wondrous backdrop against which the bleak life of one of its inhabitants would stand out. I may explore it further, if time and circumstance permit.
"Parallel Lines Meet" blends a traumatic event in my life with a "might-have-been" alternative denouement.
"Omagus" is a story of evil, hunger, addiction, and eternal vigilance.
"Welcome To The InfernalNet" is also a "lives lived" story, but with a devilish twist. I like my portrayal of hell and His Loathsome Malevolence's life there so much that I intend to return. Hopefully not in freshly discorporated form.
"At The End Of Time Waiting For Who Knows" is a modern re-imagining of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting For Godot".
"Love to go" is another blending of real details from my life with imagined calamitous world events. A possible afterlife scenario is explored. Lots of wordplay made writing it more fun than it could have been.
I hope you enjoy one or more of these stories.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BGNX1PY5
• ISBN13: 9798355003425
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"