Dragon Fights For Good: We Walk As One

By Maria Sansalone

Mark Mathews

A proud Native American from the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut. A young soldier, broken by injuries post-discharge. Mark has lost his connection with the Storytelling past of his people. Will he connect to Imagination in time to help save not one, but two creatures of mythological proportions—mythic creatures that he refuses to believe even exist?

Rose

A fiery 90-year-young Italian grandmother and great aunt of many, Rose may be limited by her wheelchair, but her physical state doesn't interfere with her ability to sense young William the Dragon and understand the need of his predicament.

Bella

A young dreamer and artist, Bella firmly comes into her own through her drawing and Storytelling, her friendship with Mark and Rose, and her bond with young William the Dragon.

William the Dragon

William is the reason all this trouble started. Well, not trouble, really. How much trouble can a 1000-year-old (not quite adult) part earth dragon part Celestial dragon running around loose in the human world actually cause anyway?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Maria Sansalone
• Release date: Sep 27, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301864911

Maria Sansalone

"Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt." --ShakespeareMaria Sansalone lives in Massachusetts, with her husband, a college math professor, and a 10-year-old house bunny named Aurora. They honor the memory of their son, William, by working with Griffin's Friends Children's Cancer Fund, promoting geoscience, supporting childhood cancer awareness, and through her stories they know he would have loved to have heard.Life's turns are such that Maria is working on a master's in education with certification in special education (moderate disabilities). This, after realizing how important story elements are to all our lives: In 2013, Maria completed a Master of Arts in Oral Traditions (doing some awesome research on the influence of contemporary dragons) from The Graduate Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from American International College. She has been very fortunate to work as part of the editorial team for Merriam-Webster, the dictionary publishers, as an associate editor (in cross-reference) for the past 24 years. As you probably can tell, Maria loves digital literacy, loves Storytelling, and loves working in HTML.Besides cross-reference contributions to some of Merriam-Webster's most important references, Maria Sansalone is traditionally published as the story editor and parent co-author of the first edition of Childhood Brain & Spinal Cord Tumors, 2001 CR, O'Reilly. Dragon Fights For Good: We Walk As One is her first self-published story.DRAGON FIGHTS FOR GOOD: WE WALK AS ONE§ Storyteller: Maria Sansalone§ Illustrated by Artist Frederick C. Wilda of NaturesFinestCreations.com§ In print, multiple digital, and Audible formats.~~~

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DRAGON FIGHTS FOR GOOD:

We Walk As One

By

Maria Sansalone

Watercolor Art

By

Frederick C. Wilda

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Smashwords Edition

Dragon Fights for Good: We Walk As One

Copyright 2013 by Maria Sansalone

This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s own Imagination and used fictitiously.

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Dedicated to our son, William James Sansalone,

and to the best possible friends anyone could walk with:

Griffin’s Friends Children’s Cancer Fund

at Baystate Health Foundation

My Thanks

To my husband and companion in all things, Jim Sansalone. To my brother Gene Maheu and his family, my brother Mark Maheu, our gentle-hearted mom Rose (Napoli) Maheu, cousin Bella DeLuca, and all the rest of our family, for love beyond the call. To Oral Traditions Program Coordinator, Sherpa, and Master Storyteller Robin Moore, for creating a safe space to soar. To all the staff and colleagues at The Graduate Institute, in Bethany, Connecticut, especially Oral Traditions Master’s Cohort 13: Nicola Able, Patti Backes, Rebecca Casey, Joe Flood, Heather Leeman, Kathy Palladino, Chris Pytlak, Danielle Schmitt, and Jennifer Winschel, for their outstanding example of synergistic collaboration. To Nan Moore, who urged me early on to follow that passion for dragons. To colleagues at Merriam-Webster Inc., and Jill Watson and Joanne Watson, for many valuable suggestions. To Artist Frederick C. Wilda and Helen Rodak of Natures Finest Creations, for their friendship and gift of the beautiful watercolor art that Fred created just for this story. And to Mark Amodio, Seamus Heaney, Julie Lawson, Leo Lionni, Shawn MacKenzie, Deborah Pieri, and Naomi White-Innis, whose Storytelling touched and warmed my own.

DRAGON FIGHTS FOR GOOD:

We Walk As One

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This is neither the beginning nor the end of the tales recorded here. But with your help, these Stories and others can and will live forever.

Mark builds a fire in the old fireplace, lighting it the way his father, and then the military, had taught him. The dark cabin begins to glow. Light and shadows dart across strong features, showing his Mohegan ancestry. He studies the tired group napping