By Your Side When The Sun Sets

By M.H. Lee

What do you do when your best friend is three stories tall, breathes fire, and may be forgetting that you're his friend?

 

That's the dilemma in this short story about an aging dragonrider and his dragon.

• Language: English
• Publisher: M.H. Lee
• Release date: Oct 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393252467

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By Your Side When the Sun Sets

Also by M.H. Lee

When the Time Comes and Other Stories

The following short stories which are part of the collection are also available on an individual basis in ebook format:

The Bearer *

The Price We Pay *

Death Answered My Call *

Drowning In Their Darkness *

To Be A Hero

The Taste of Memory

In Search of a Frickin' Hero

By Your Side When the Sun Sets

Titles with an * were also previously included in the essay and short story collection A World Dark & Cold which is no longer available for purchase.

By Your Side When the Sun Sets

Gray, wake up! Hands grasped his shoulder and shook him until he swatted them away. He winced as the motion pulled at the scar tissue along his back, the unfortunate remnant of a battle he couldn't quite remember. They all started to blend together after a couple decades spent dragonback, slashing and fighting in the name of God and country.

As the screams, roars, and strong smell of something burning made their way through the layers of exhaustion he snapped completely awake, reaching for his boots and sword.

What is it? Are we under attack? He shoved the boots on, grabbed the sword, and ran into the hallway, the cadet who'd awakened him—young and eager like all the cadets who he could never name but who he always smiled at and nodded to when he passed—trailing along behind him.

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