"Swan Song" by Melissa Mead appeared in Daily Science Fiction on April 24, 2013 as part of the e-zine's every-other-Wednesday faerie tale series. "An injured faerie laments that she cannot fly."
Flash fiction is difficult to write well. The author must establish genre, an MC, a plot, climax, and resolution with ruthless efficiency. There is the kernel of a complete story in "Swan Song," but the grain perhaps needed more words to germinate. 2 out of 7 rocket-dragons.
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