Dylan Reed
I write speculative fiction about systems that fail the people inside them — dragon licensing boards, dying deep-sea stations, cozy towns where slime runs the bakery.
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The Amazing Squirrel — A part-time superhero in a purple and orange squirrel suit shows up late to a bank robbery. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
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BETA READING ISN'T DRUGS: There Is No Free First Hit, Please Stop DMing Me
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Writing Advice from the Unpublished, LOL
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I Wrote 66,000 Words About Dragons Who Need a License to Hoard and an 80-Page Appendix of Government Forms, Send Help
April 29, 2026There is a story I wrote years ago that I called Dragon Hoard (though to be honest I think I spelled it Horde). It is quite possibly my favorite story…