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The Sign of the Dragon

Mary Soon Lee
Contents (300)
  1. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  2. INTERREGNUM
  3. GUARDED
  4. TRAINING: WEIGHTS
  5. SUCCESSION
  6. GRIEF
  7. MAP
  8. NOT SO
  9. TRAINING: STANCES
  10. THE HORSE LORD
  11. TUTOR
  12. HORSES
  13. TRAINING: HORSE
  14. SHAZIA
  15. WEDDING GIFTS
  16. TRAINING: SPARRING
  17. WOLF MOON
  18. CROSSING
  19. PIGEON SIX
  20. SETTING OUT
  21. THIRTY-EIGHTH WAR BETWEEN INNIS AND MEQING FIRST BATTLE
  22. ROSE
  23. KHYERT
  24. MOON SWAN
  25. THIRTY-EIGHTH WAR BETWEEN INNIS AND MEQING SECOND BATTLE
  26. LEONG
  27. MIDNIGHT
  28. THIRTY-EIGHTH WAR BETWEEN INNIS AND MEQING THIRD BATTLE
  29. TSUNG’S BATTLE
  30. DOWN
  31. DONAL
  32. SURGEON
  33. THE MATTER OF THE HORSES
  34. TRAINING: RUNNING
  35. WHAT XAU RAN FROM
  36. THE QUEEN’S WAR
  37. NIGHT
  38. MEMORIALS
  39. STABLES
  40. TRAINING: DARK
  41. DRAGONSLAYER
  42. COMPANIONSHIP
  43. TRAINING: CARRY
  44. ROPE SKIPPING CHANT
  45. NAMING
  46. DECORATION
  47. A HANDFUL OF NIGHTS
  48. ARTOCH
  49. AFTERWARD
  50. WHAT XAU REMEMBERED
  51. ONE WEEK
  52. BEDTIME
  53. HELP
  54. WHAT THEY BROUGHT
  55. ROUTE
  56. CAMP
  57. AFTERSHOCK
  58. SCALPEL
  59. SCARED
  60. GIRL
  61. CURE
  62. THE WAY OF THINGS
  63. IN HONOR OF THE KING
  64. TRAINING: INJURY
  65. MICHA
  66. THRESHOLD
  67. RIDDLE: TWINS
  68. ABSENCE
  69. LETTER TO HIS YOUNG SON
  70. THIRTY-NINTH WAR BETWEEN INNIS AND MEQING: COMMENCEMENT
  71. FAULT
  72. POLTON
  73. JUSTICE
  74. WINTER REAPING
  75. MESSENGERS
  76. BROTHERS
  77. DEMON FIRE
  78. NECROMANCER
  79. RANK AND FILE
  80. LINNY
  81. NIGHT ATTACK
  82. ANGSHAN
  83. MOON DARK
  84. MIDSUMMER’S DAY
  85. BURNT
  86. TRAINING: ENDURANCE
  87. DRAGON
  88. ALDFORD
  89. BEFORE
  90. DEMON
  91. THE DEMON’S CREW
  92. DEBT
  93. DAYBREAK
  94. NUMBERS
  95. DARKNESS
  96. MENDING
  97. TRAINING: SHIELD
  98. TIRRON
  99. RETURNING
  100. HAN CHEN
  101. RIDDLE: MAIDEN
  102. AFTER
  103. VICTORY
  104. QUEEN FIAN
  105. DEMON STAIN
  106. DARK HARVEST
  107. BRIGHID
  108. MATTERS OF STATE
  109. TWO KINGS
  110. RESPECT
  111. DIVERSION
  112. ENLAI
  113. BOYS
  114. MEI
  115. SECOND SIGHT
  116. INCIDENT
  117. BLAME
  118. THE HOUSE OF MEMORY
  119. PETITION
  120. HER THOUSAND FACES
  121. DUTY
  122. WHAT KING DONAL SAID TO HIS BROTHER,
  123. PRINCE CONNOL,
  124. CONCERNING A POSSIBLE WEDDING
  125. BETWEEN PRINCE CONNOL AND THE
  126. PRINCESS MEI
  127. SOLSTICE
  128. SCHEDULE
  129. RIDDLE: AUSPICIOUS
  130. SUMMONS
  131. JUMBLE
  132. FALLEN
  133. CAPTAIN
  134. OUTSPOKEN
  135. SICKBED
  136. LETTERS
  137. BESPEAKING: RIDDLES
  138. FIRST DAY
  139. FOREBODING
  140. EVER AFTER
  141. WELCOME
  142. LI
  143. BEFORE KINGS
  144. VIEWPOINT
  145. THE RIDE BACK
  146. POSTPONED
  147. DISTRACTION
  148. WAKE
  149. EIRDRE
  150. BENCH
  151. TIARNAN
  152. DREAM
  153. SWORDS
  154. WOLF THRONE
  155. HARP
  156. WIDOW
  157. HARMOUTH
  158. OPUS
  159. RIDDLE: INSTRUMENT
  160. HANDS
  161. SHADE
  162. LIPOH
  163. MISTAKEN
  164. HUANG
  165. DECISION
  166. ATUN
  167. WHAT ATUN LEARNED
  168. JUN XI
  169. TRAVELING
  170. DISCRETION
  171. FORD
  172. A CHAIN OF HORSES
  173. NOT LIKE THIS
  174. SURFACING
  175. BUSY
  176. WHY THE KING WEPT
  177. DREAD
  178. HERO
  179. HOMING PIGEONS
  180. VENGEANCE
  181. DARK ARROW
  182. DIPLOMATIC COMMUNIQUÉ
  183. MEETING
  184. THE VOICE
  185. THE HIDDEN QUEEN
  186. FRAUGHT
  187. MONSTER
  188. TRAINING: HOSTAGE
  189. ANOTHER WEEK
  190. BASICS
  191. FOR HER BIRTHDAY
  192. INHERITANCE
  193. KENG
  194. RIDDLE: HOUSE
  195. STAY
  196. EVERYWOMAN
  197. TRAINING: GUARDS
  198. UNDONE
  199. AMBER
  200. PORTRAITS
  201. MONSTER: PUPPETEER
  202. ELIGIBLE
  203. THE NINE
  204. TOMB SWEEPING DAY
  205. ARROW
  206. NOTHING
  207. RIPPLES
  208. HONOR
  209. DELAYED
  210. FERRY
  211. THE RIDE
  212. VIGIL
  213. PARTNERS
  214. UNSAID
  215. REMEMBRANCE
  216. PROPHECY
  217. MEDDLING
  218. QUESTIONS
  219. YING
  220. THE HUNDRED DRAGONS OF SUMBRAL
  221. THE PATH TO PEACE
  222. DRAGON BREATH
  223. A GIFT
  224. FIRE BONES
  225. TRAINING: STAFF
  226. ESCORT
  227. THE DEAD
  228. INTERLUDE
  229. FIRE
  230. CYRUS
  231. DAWN
  232. A WARNING
  233. AGAIN
  234. REASONS
  235. THE BORDER
  236. HEAT
  237. HER
  238. HIM
  239. MONSTER: OASIS
  240. THE HORSE WOMAN
  241. NEGOTIATION
  242. STEPMOTHER
  243. KING’S GUARD
  244. VETO
  245. EXTRACTS FROM THE RECOLLECTIONS OF ARTOCH, SENIOR ADVISOR TO KING XAU
  246. ENTOURAGE
  247. BETWEEN
  248. THE WILD HORSES CAME HASTENING
  249. FEALTY
  250. SHEEP
  251. THE EIGHTH SON OF GANBATAAR
  252. ANCHOR
  253. KHIDYR
  254. PROPOSITION
  255. PAIRED
  256. SUMMER’S END
  257. HOMECOMING
  258. SATISFACTORY
  259. TIAN
  260. MONSTER: SISTER
  261. DRAGON MOUNTAIN
  262. ALLIES
  263. KHAN
  264. LOYALTY
  265. TARGET
  266. OATH
  267. RECRUITS
  268. BRIDGE
  269. WAY-FORT
  270. BOWL
  271. LANTERN FESTIVAL
  272. COAST
  273. MONSTER: OPENING GAMBIT
  274. SPY
  275. LOTUS MOON
  276. FIVE ARROWS
  277. KINGSHIP
  278. GAN
  279. COUNTER GAMBIT
  280. VENEER
  281. YUNXU
  282. CONCLUSIONS
  283. SINCE SUMBRAL
  284. FURTHER EXTRACTS FROM THE RECOLLECTIONS OF ARTOCH, SENIOR ADVISOR TO KING XAU
  285. MONSTER: TAHJ
  286. BOYHOOD
  287. JOY
  288. MANEUVERS
  289. ADDENDUM
  290. REUNION
  291. THE IMPERIUM
  292. BENEATH THE BLADE
  293. EQUINOX
  294. LOGIC
  295. BLOODSHED
  296. WOUNDED
  297. DAUNTED
  298. THE IMPERIAL WAR: ONSET
  299. BOATMAN
  300. IMPOSTOR
The Sign of the Dragon
The Sign of the Dragon

THE SIGN OF THE DRAGON

Copyright © 2020 by Mary Soon Lee

All rights reserved.

Published as an eBook in 2020 by JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

ISBN 978-1-625674-90-6

Poems from this collection first appeared in the following publications: Apex Magazine; Crowned: The Sign of the Dragon, Book 1; Dreams & Nightmares; Eye to the Telescope; Grievous Angel; Heroic Fantasy Quarterly; HWA Poetry Showcase, Volume II; Ideomancer; Ligature Works; The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; Main Street Rag; Mirror Dance; Mithila Review; Mythic Delirium; Open Mouse; Polu Texni; Red Rock Review; Rune; Ship of Fools; Silver Blade; Songs of Eretz Poetry Review; Spillway; Star*Line; Strange Horizons; Tales of the Talisman; Uppagus. Additionally, poems are forthcoming in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly and The Magazine of Speculative Poetry.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Author’s Note

Interregnum

Guarded

Training: Weights

Succession

Grief

Map

Not So

Training: Stances

The Horse Lord

Tutor

Horses

Training: Horse

Shazia

Wedding Gifts

Training: Sparring

Wolf Moon

Crossing

Pigeon Six

Setting Out

Thirty-Eighth War...First Battle

Rose

Khyert

Moon Swan

Thirty-Eighth War...Second Battle

Leong

Midnight

Thirty-Eighth War...Third Battle

Tsung’s Battle

Down

Donal

Surgeon

The Matter of the Horses

Training: Running

What Xau Ran From

The Queen’s War

Night

Memorials

Stables

Training: Dark

Dragonslayer

Companionship

Training: Carry

Rope Skipping Chant

Naming

Decoration

A Handful of Nights

Artoch

Afterward

What Xau Remembered

One Week

Bedtime

Help

What They Brought

Route

Camp

Aftershock

Scalpel

Scared

Girl

Cure

The Way of Things

In Honor of the King

Training: Injury

Micha

Threshold

Riddle: Twins

Absence

Letter to his Young Son

Thirty-Ninth War...Commencement

Fault

Polton

Justice

Winter Reaping

Messengers

Brothers

Demon Fire

Necromancer

Rank and File

Linny

Night Attack

Angshan

Moon Dark

Midsummer’s Day

Burnt

Training: Endurance

Dragon

Aldford

Before

Demon

The Demon’s Crew

Debt

Daybreak

Numbers

Darkness

Mending

Training: Shield

Tirron

Returning

Han Chen

Riddle: Maiden

After

Victory

Queen Fian

Demon Stain

Dark Harvest

Brighid

Matters of State

Two Kings

Respect

Diversion

Enlai

Boys

Mei

Second Sight

Incident

Blame

The House of Memory

Petition

Her Thousand Faces

Duty

What King Donal Said...

Solstice

Schedule

Riddle: Auspicious

Summons

Jumble

Fallen

Captain

Outspoken

Sickbed

Letters

Bespeaking: Riddles

First Day

Foreboding

Ever After

Welcome

Li

Before Kings

Viewpoint

The Ride Back

Postponed

Distraction

Wake

Eirdre

Bench

Tiarnan

Dream

Swords

Wolf Throne

Harp

Widow

Harmouth

Opus

Riddle: Instrument

Hands

Shade

Lipoh

Mistaken

Huang

Decision

Atun

What Atun Learned

Jun Xi

Traveling

Discretion

Ford

A Chain of Horses

Not Like This

Surfacing

Busy

Why the King Wept

Dread

Hero

Homing Pigeons

Vengeance

Dark Arrow

Diplomatic Communique

Meeting

The Voice

The Hidden Queen

Fraught