Dragons and Witches by Madeline Smoot

Author:Madeline Smoot
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CBAY Books
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

At seven years old Kath Boyd Marsh self-published her first fantasy on lined notebook paper, stapled together by her grandfather, and starring a creature based on her little sister—the ‘PB.’ Before Kath moved to Richmond, KY to write about dragons, wizards, and other fantastic creatures, she lived in seven states, Panama, and one very haunted house. The Lazy Dr’gon and the Bumblespells Wizard was her debut novel.

Technological Magic

Susan Bianculli

When humans finally colonized the Moon in 2137, all Earth rejoiced that one of Mankind’s oldest dreams had been achieved. When the colonists had finished building the infrastructure, they then began to do what humans have always done: have children. Though the adults had been the first extraterrestrial colonists, it was Amalthea and the children born on the Moon who were the first true extraterrestrial humans. They grew up attuned to the sounds of the colony station in a way their parents could never be; so when the familiar thrums that underlined their everyday existence changed, the children noticed.

“Did you hear that?” Amalthea asked, opening her eyes where she sat.

She and the twenty-one other teens sitting together in the Contemplation Studio had been doing a guided group meditation, but everyone had stopped concentrating at the exact same moment.

“Yeah, I did,” said her friend Deimos. “Computer, off.” The soothing voice that had been conducting their mental exercises vanished.

All the other teens started talking over each other about what they’d heard. Amalthea called for silence, got it, and tapped her parents’ code on her wrist computer.

“Dad? Mom? Did you just hear that?”

“Hear what?” her father replied through the speaker.

“Can you describe it?” her mother chimed in.

“I, uh, dunno. The background noises just went kinda off. We heard a change.”

Amalthea could hear the frown in her father’s voice. “I’ll need more than that, young lady.”

“I heard it too, Mr. Richard, Mrs. Jane,” Deimos leaned over and added helpfully.

“Do you have a better description, Deimos?” asked Jane.

“Well, no …,” he replied, his voice trailing off.

Jane inhaled sharply, and Richard said hurriedly, “We’ll look into it,” as he cut the connection short.

“No, the Chief Engineer wasn’t being at all suspicious just then,” a boy named Suttung said sarcastically.

“There’s definitely something going on,” Amalthea agreed.

“Should we investigate too?” Deimos asked.

“Investigate what and where, exactly?” Suttung asked. “We don’t know what could be wrong, and the Moon colony is a huge place. It could be anywhere and anything.”

“Maybe we should get into our space suits?” a girl named Bestla said.

“Why?” Deimos answered. “If the station implodes or anything, it’s not like Earth would send up a rescue ship for the survivors.”

All the teens exchanged solemn glances. Getting Mankind to colonize space had proven beyond the capabilities of the Earth’s governments, so it had fallen, like so much had, to privatization. Eventually many of the smaller religious organizations had come together under the umbrella name Ancient Faiths Association and pooled their cash to achieve the space dream. But since the station was a privately funded enterprise it had always been

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