The Goose’s Wing is finished!

“What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose’s wing?”

– Abbas ibn Firnas

I finished that alt-hist short story! It’s a nice, hefty 8,300 words long, and will probably end up a little longer.

In the story, Andalusian adventurer and political activist Tariq Fortun al-Muley runs afoul of terrorists as he attempts to re-enact the last thousand years of historic glider voyages.

First line: The last echoes of the call to worship fade into the heat rising off Cordoba, and against Tariq’s back the glider shivers.

Last line: He looks up. “Now where are those matches?” Tariq cannot wait to get back into the sky.

Finished in: The Saint Andrews Guest House, Jerusalem, Israel

If anybody wants to beta-read it, please tell me in the comments