"Slay Me," Said the Dragon — Stephen Del Mar

Drake's a pretty, blond twink of a college kid and he has a problem. It's his twenty-first birthday and the one person he wants at his birthday bash isn't there. Flint, his roommate, is missing. Drake decides to ditch his own party and find him. This is the night he's going to tell Flint how he really feels but where is he? Flint's hiding out in a leather bar that's secretly a dragon den. Things get interesting when Drake finds him, because Drake has a secret of his own, he's really a dragon slayer. “Slay me,” said the dragon, is a wacky short story about star-crossed lovers and unintended consequences. “Slay me,” said the dragon, is the prequel to “The Live Oak Tales,” a contemporary fantasy/paranormal series set in the wider Stories from Bennett Bay collection. “Slay me,” said the dragon introduces us to the dragons and a bit of their lore.