Dragon Trains & Wagon Tales

By Sarah Buhrman

On Lore, the most dangerous life is that of a Colonial searching for a new home. For those who choose that life, the best protection is a dragon.

Oralia is a dragon-rider with disdain for Colonials, but one girl gets under her armor. When Story vanishes into the Badlands, Oralia must challenge the Colonials and face down the outlaw Dusters

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sarah Buhrman
• Release date: Jun 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781087891347

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Dragon Trains & Wagon Tales

By Sarah Buhrman

Copyright © 2020

Sarah Buhrman

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof, excluding the exceptions listed below, may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Printed in the United States of America

First Printing, 2020

To my friend and fellow author Diane Morrison, who showed me how very fun wyrd west / western/sci-fi can be!

Chapter 1

The canvas-covered wagons undulated over the rocks of the Badlands. Pale fabric billowed in the breeze, echoed by the flutter of hundreds of legs that carried the wagons. Men trudged alongside the wagons, using the long poles in their hands to nudge the giant millipedes when necessary.

Women often walked as well or sat in small groups within the cramped shade of one of the wagons. Several of the women had small children and extra hands to keep toddlers out of supplies was welcome.

Older children had run off the energy of the cool mornings and tramped beside their fathers. Some of the smaller ones jostled for position just behind the wagons, clinging to the last few feet of the segmented bodies of the giant millipedes on which the wagons sat.

Patches of rust-red grasses broke up the greenish tinted limestone, both colorations the result of high levels of iron potassium in the soil. Reddish scrub brush drove the wagons to change course from a straight line to