Shroom World of the Dragon

No good deed goes unpunished.

Joylen found that out sixty-five million years ago when she saved one of her farm workers from being eaten alive by a Tyrannosaurus.  After the attack, the victim was ... different—not better.  Something was wrong with his brain but Joylen didn't know what, and she didn't have the money to take him around to specialists.  Where she lived, there weren't any specialists anyway.  She was a humble farmer's daughter working on a little farm in a poor and remote village.  Joylen was a dinosaur, but much smaller than the Tyrannosaurus.  She was the same size as a human being.  She called herself a dragon, as did the rest of her kind in that long-lost age when dinosaurs ruled the world.

Whatever was wrong with the victim, it was her fault, because she had taken him on the expedition against her parents' wishes.  Had she not gone searching for mushroom compost, he wouldn't have been half-eaten and his wife and nestlings wouldn't be at risk of starving to death now that he was no longer able to provide for them.

The expedition was a success in that mushrooms were discovered.  They were giant mushrooms, some of them as tall as trees, much too big to be used as compost.  Because she couldn't take a tree-sized mushroom home to the farm, she did the next best thing, which was to carry off a piece of one.  By the time she got it back to the village, it had started to decay.  There matters would have ended had the big mushroom not been brought to the attention of one of the world's richest dragons.  Bolon was his name, and he was so rich that he owned part of the Moon.  Someone suggested to him that the strange mushrooms, growing so big here on Earth, might get even bigger in the weaker gravity field of the Moon.  How much bigger?  There was only one way to find out, and that was to try growing them on the Moon!

Who should be flown to the Moon to grow the mushrooms?  Who better than their discoverer, Joylen?  But she didn't want to go.  She couldn't go.  Her life had always centered on the farm and responsibility to her aging parents.  And now she also needed somehow to provide for the family of the injured employee.  It was all too much, she told Bolon: there was no way she could go galavanting around up on the Moon.  The last time she had tried something new, it turned into a disaster when the Tyrannosaurus attacked.

Bolon kept up a gentle but firm pressure, plus his gold had a way of talking without speaking.  He promised Joylen that he would take care of all her money problems on Earth and cover all the expenses of living and working on an airless world.  He wasn't requiring anything of her, except that she *try* to grow the big mushrooms on the Moon.  Anyone can try ... and whatever will be, will be.

Shroom World of the Dragon is part of a series about an ancient dinosaurian civilization.  Each book stands by itself and can be read alone or with the others.  If you enjoy stories such as Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, you should check out Shroom World of the Dragon.  Cross the solar system—travel back in time—buy this adventure-packed tale today!