The Dragon Maker

By Elizabeth Baxter

In a far distant future, when art is dead and beauty is gone from the world, one man sets out to change everything. He is an artist, the last of his kind, and he is trying to save the world.

He is the Dragon Maker.

This is a 3000 word fantasy short story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elizabeth Baxter
• Release date: Mar 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301445929

Elizabeth Baxter

I've been a bookworm since I was five years old. The first book I ever read was about a boy going shopping with his mum. I picked it up from my brother's bedroom floor and suddenly those strange shapes on the page made sense. I could read! Hallelujah! I was soon working my way steadily through the school library and it wasn't long before I realised that stories about dragons, elves and great big talking lions were by far the most interesting. And that was it, my obsession with fantasy fiction was born. Hence, my blog about fantasy writing, both my own and others (with a healthy dose of humour and worldly observation thrown in.) I wrote and published my first book when I was seven. This was a rip-roaring adventure tale called “The Golden Pheasant,” about, well, a golden pheasant. I wrote out three copies on bits of paper pulled from my school books, bound them in covers made from old cereal boxes, and gave them out to my teachers. And that’s it. I was a writer! When I’m not writing I enjoy playing tennis (badly), playing the guitar (very badly) and watching cricket whenever I can. I’m also intent on cramming as much world travel as I can into one lifetime. Funny, but my list keeps getting longer. You can never see it all can you? Likes: Favourite TV programme: Merlin Favourite music: Green Day, 30 Seconds To Mars, Staind, REM, Tori Amos Favourite authors: Tolkien, Stephen Donaldson, Steven Erikson, George RR. Martin, Robin Hobb, Angie Sage, Michelle Paver, JV Jones, Terry Pratchett Favourite films: The Untouchables, The Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, The Lord of The Rings, Con Air Dislikes: Being cold, getting up in the morning, two-faced people, spiders, boiled carrots

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Reviews for The Dragon Maker

[lynnoconnacht · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

"The Dragon Maker" is part fantasy story, part ecological commentary, part meditation on the meaning of art. Unfortunately, it's also very heavy on the telling, so I never quite got to experience the latter two aspects as much as I might have.Still, despite that, I enjoyed the read. Baxter packed a fair amount into her short story and it did ask me to think about the relationship between an artist and their works. Baxter sets the piece firmly on a futuristic Earth, only hinting at many of the changes, and I wish the story had been a bit longer so we could have spent more time seeing them. The way she sets art and technology apart, while I don't agree with it, was an aspect I would have liked to have seen explored in more depth.