I Wrote 66,000 Words About Dragons Who Need a License to Hoard and an 80-Page Appendix of Government Forms, Send Help

There is a story I wrote years ago that I called Dragon Hoard (though to be honest I think I spelled it Horde). It is quite possibly my favorite story that I have ever written. I have submitted it a couple (a lot) times to fancy pants fantasy journals and received personal replies twice. Both amounted to “We liked it but not quite sure where it would fit in upcoming issues”. This is a win. But it got me thinking. Is this just a really REALLY really weird story that has a hard time finding a place to live. Here is what the first story is about: Benjamin hoards electronics. That’s what dragons do. He needs a damsel to properly be a dragon, so he kidnaps Alice Huang, a Denver repair technician. Alice is furious until she realizes his cavern of broken machines is an opportunity. Weekdays she works in the city. Weekends she wires jukeboxes and turntables into Benjamin’s battery grid. They build something that looks like a life. Then Alice tells her therapist the truth about where she…