The Desolator: A fighter, a mage and a halfling confront a murderous dragon and huge bar tab
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Unfortunately, the only adventurers foolish enough to defend the place have problems of their own.
Hurm is a muscle-bound barbarian who believes everything can be solved by swishing his huge sword about. Father Mephistopheles has a cunning plan, a short fuse and a powerful spell book. And Runt, a sharp-tongued halfling with light fingers and a fondness for trouble, has somehow been volunteered to tame the dragon with a giant magic collar.
What could possibly go wrong?
A 5,000-word high-fantasy parody from the author of the Hal Spacejock series, originally published in Andromeda Spaceways #6. The same characters feature in the Dragon and Chips trilogy.
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About the author
Simon Haynes lives in Western Australia, where he divides his time between herding deadly spiders, dodging drop bears, and making up wildly inaccurate sentences like this one.
By day he's an author. By night he's also an author.
He loves wry, dry humour, and his hobbies include daringly inserting the letter U into words where -- in some parts of the world at least -- this simply isn't the done thing.
As for his genre-spanning novels, they include epic fantasy (with robots), scifi comedy (also with robots), middle grade humour (featuring robots AND the wanton use of the letter U), as well as a series of historical mystery novels set in 1870's London. (No, of course there aren't robots in those. He's not completely out of his mind.)
When he's not writing Simon is usually renovating his house, sim-racing online, using twitter (@spacejock), gardening, tweaking his book covers, pondering the meaning of the universe and reading, and if you think it's easy doing all that at the same time you should see what he can do with a mug of coffee, a banana and a large bag of salt.
When he's not making outlandish claims he likes to count how many novels he's written, and how many genres he's written them in. (Lots and too many.)
Finally, if you want to hear Simon reading one of his award-winning stories, you'll find an enticement to join his newsletter here: spacejock.com.au/ML.html
