Some Sugar

A Fairish and Goat tale. Sparkly the dragon eats some bad troll. Naturally, this leads to profound conversation. Unnaturally, Fairish is beginning to not entirely loathe the one-eyed goatherd she's bound to for all eternity ...On an alien world of giant insects, Rover strives to be like every other drone and mate with the queen. When he isn’t able to perform his drone duties, he struggles for acceptance and finds friendship and love in an unlikely place—among humans. Along Rover’s journey he finds he holds a key to helping humans overcome their infertility on his planet and offers a solution for uniting his people with the newcomers to his world.“The Day of the Nuptial Flight” is a 10,000 word science fiction novelette originally published in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.