title: The Prince and the Dragon: A Fairy Tale
author:  Virginia Wright 
description: <b>Virginia Wright</b><span>(born Virginia Brown March 19, 1958) is an American author and illustrator of children's fantasy fiction and non-fiction books. She first became a published author in 1981 when she sold her first writing--Faith, to a regional magazine in the state of Maine. Faith, The Blessing, and Rosarium is published in an anthology--Soundings by the Poetry Fellowship of Maine. Wright received a World of Poetry Merit Award-- with Rank: Honorable Mention (1987) for her poem, Faith. The poems Picture Memories and Life, Love, Inevitably Death are published in Our Day of Passing Anthology by Ingrid Hall, Franco Esposito, Dennis Higgins, Virginia Wright and a collaboration of 30+ other talented co-authors around the globe. Besides poetry Wright has written six books, her first a children's book, "The Princess and the Castle, A Fairy Tale" (2010) and this was followed by three other fairy tales, The Prince and the Dragon, Crying Bear, and a Christmas classic, The Christmas Secret: Mikey's Story. Wright is the author of an educational non-fiction short book for all ages, Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do. Her latest book, Wild Animal Sounds, was released November 2014. As an illustrator, the cover Wright illustrated for Steampunk Alice by Dennis Higgins won the AUTHORSdb Gold Award (2014).</span><br /><br /><b>To find out more and connect with Virginia Wright go to:</b><br /><br /><span>Blog: virginiawright.com/blog</span><br /><span>Facebook: facebook.com/virginiabrownwright</span><br /><span>Twitter: twitter.com/virginia_wright</span><br /><span>Amazon: amazon.com/author/virginiawright</span><br /><span>Instagram: instagram.com/wright.virginia</span><br /><span>Website: virginiawright.com</span><br /><span>Email: info@virginiawright.com</span><br /><br /><br /><b>Member Affiliation:</b><span></span><br /><span>*Association of Independent Authors (AIA)</span><br /><span>*Maine Writers &amp; Publishers Alliance</span><br />
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  _Enjoy this new original short story by author and young adult fiction editor
  Cecil Castellucci. A retelling of the Prince Lindwurm fairy tale, Brother
  Prince Snake is a story of love, sibling rivalry, and how a monster became
  King._
  
  
  _This story was acquired and edited for Tor.com by Roaring Brook Press
  editor[Nancy
  Mercado](https://www.tor.com/tags/edited%20by%20Nancy%20Mercado)._
  
  
  
  
  
  When I was born, the last of triplet brothers, the midwife nearly threw me
  away. Until she heard me cry. My wail must have sounded pathetic and small and
  distasteful, just like I was, but it didn’t matter. It did the trick. It kept
  me alive.
  
  
  “Show me my son,” the queen, my mother, demanded and she took me into her
  arms. She looked into my yellow eyes and considered my scaly yellow-green skin
  and then placed a kiss on my forehea