Dragon Skin

By Jill Zeller

A locket containing a slice of scaly skin, a garden full of unruly 'bees', and her stubborn, elderly mother distract Jenn from the sense her life is falling apart, but how far will Jenn go to become whole again?

• Language: English
• Publisher: J Z Morrison Press
• Release date: Dec 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781311374431

Jill Zeller

The author of numerous short stories and novels, Jill Zeller lives in Albany, Oregon with her patient husband, and a venerable cat and her thralls, two adult English Mastiffs. Her works explore the complex geology of reality. Some may call it fantasy but there are rarely swords and never elves.

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Dragon Skin

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Jill Zeller

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Dragon Skin

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Dragon Skin

There is a skin disease called harlequin ichthyosis. My uncle had it. I didn't know I had an uncle until I started checking in on my mother everyday after the neighbors began calling me with strange stories.

This is my strange story.

My mother Genevieve is seventy-two, a vital, young age in current geriatric medicine. She is tall and straight, like me, but unlike me she wears a cloud of brilliant white hair that falls to her shoulders like a glacier built by spiders. She still lives in our