Lorraine Schein has published in Strange Horizons, Scientific American, and the anthology Wild Women and Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey & Sylvia Plath. Her books include The Futurist’s Mistress (poetry, Mayapple Press) and The Lady Anarchist Cafe, available from Autonomedia and on Amazon.
The dragon beds down in his cavefolds his enormous gilded wingslike a weighted blanket enveloping himand settles onto his nest,lined with a tapestry showing a unicornsnatched from some castle he threatened. Of course, there is no such creature, the...