Dorothy: Locked & Loaded was a serialized, collaborative novel effort of six writers, each of whom played a very specific role within the story of the return to Oz of Dorothy. Only this time, it is not Dorothy Gale of the original, a wide-eyed innocent. It’s Dot, her granddaughter, who grew up listening to the wild and hardly believable tales of her grandmother's adventures in the land of Oz, then spent her first years as an adult marching through the dry wadis of Afghanistan as a US Marine.
What fate awaits our heroine in an Oz that has evolved, or dare we say devolved, fallen into despair and dystopia over the course of fifty years? What new or old dangers lurk? What has been the fate of Dorothy's old companions? Will they still be there to help the newest stranger in the land? Will they be who she's always heard they were, or have they changed? And was it for the better?
Stay tuned and find out as Dot, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Lion, a host of other new characters, and your faithful narrator tell the story of Dorothy: Locked & Loaded. Toto is more lethal than ever, and this isn't Kansas or your grandmother's Oz!
Coming to my website this year with lots of content and excerpts coming to Medium and Substack, too!
