Aviatrix Unbound

​After her third attempted escape, Ava’s father clipped her wings and left her to her own devices on a remote South Pacific island, long since abandoned by the military. The entire island had been built as a testing ground and, for some obscure reason they’d left everything behind—outdated equipment, technological odds and ends, and a tall tower that looked out over the rocky shores. All of this suited Ava just fine. Out of the twisted metal and wires, she raised an Archaeopteryx. And with the assistance of a smuggled memory chip and a whispered command, she brought the winged mech to life Excerpt from short story by Carina Bisset in the Triangulation: Extinction anthology.