On a dark night on a moor, 900 years after the nativity, two knights face down a steaming behemoth.
It was a fog inside of a mist inside of a darkness, and this place was no man’s place and there was no year or hour at all, but only these men in a faceless emptiness of sudden frost, storm, and white thunder which moved behind the great falling pane of green glass that was the lightning.

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  1. “The Dragon” by Ray Bradbury, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1955.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Ray Bradbury