Christopher Alexander Kaplan

Grandmother Dragon

Short Story

When solar storms rage and quantum resonance echoes through the ruins of Valhallis, Maru—a pregnant seeker—ventures into haunted, time-twisted corridors to claim a dragon egg, the last hope for her lineage and a universe on the brink.

As Maru navigates collapsing realities, ancestral songs, and the dangers of the crumbling city, she must choose between saving her own future or that of an entire species. Her journey through myth and memory becomes a meditation on inheritance, sacrifice, and the force of motherhood, in a world where dragons are the creators and enders of worlds—keepers of memory, possibility, and the cycles of life itself.