TITLE: Young Adult
GENRE: Secret
There is a difference in this calling—like the foreboding I had on the day my mother chose to leave. I was only a fledgling, but I still feel the pain of her decision. A dull ache in my chest that only flying can relieve.
Above me, a seagull spreads her wings wide and teases me with her lazy spiraling dive. I dare to glance to the side, letting my impatience break my rigid pose. The others balance along the cliff’s edge, a long line of Falco. The elite are farthest away from me, their positions defined by skill. The last in our class is beside me, even though I placed above him—and above many of them—in our competitions. I remain at the end of the line, my mixed heritage trumping any strength I possess.
Movement flashes in the periphery of my vision, but I remain still.
Miss Snark's First Victim
Fantasy
ReplyDeleteFlying people with hints of dystopia. Mash up of Angel Experiment and Muggles?
Fantasy.
ReplyDeleteThe whole flying thing :)
Fantasy
ReplyDeleteBecause of the flying people.
Fantasy.
ReplyDeleteFlying people.
Fantasy.
ReplyDeleteFantasy popped into my head with the words: calling, fledgling, and flying (as in the mc flying).
Fantasy.
ReplyDeleteFantasy popped into my head with the words: calling, fledgling, and flying (as in the mc flying).
Fantasy, but could be contemporary magical, like shape-shifters.
ReplyDeleteFantasy
ReplyDeleteFledgling, flying. I assume they're either shape-shifters or some kind of humanesque flying creatures.
Superhero
ReplyDeleteFantasy, as the character flies and is a "Falco."
ReplyDeleteMagical Realism
ReplyDeleteIs the protagonist a seagull?
Fantasy. MC refers to time when s/he was a fledgling and the whole flying business.
ReplyDeleteFantasy
ReplyDeleteThe flying creatures, mention of the MC being a fledging and the reference to Falco. Love how the position of where each rests sounds a lot like where kids sit in the cafeteria at high school.
fantasy
ReplyDeleteMC is a flying creature of mixed heritage
Fantasy
ReplyDeleteAlthough I wasn't sure if we were inside the head of a bird or not but I think they are humanoids of some sort learning to fly.
SCIENCE-FICTION.
ReplyDeleteThe MC is in a school that teaches kids how to fly. Maybe military. Maybe dystopian too.
Fantasy
ReplyDeleteFalco have an enviable ability, though they still need training. Lucky bird-like organisms.
Fantasy
ReplyDeletePerhaps the narrator is a dragon? The details make it crystal clear the narrator isn't human.
Animal Fantasy.
ReplyDeleteFalcons lined on a cliff, preparing for flight lessons. Of the genus Falco.
Sci Fi or Fantasy.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, because if this were for a younger audience I might have assumed this was an animal story. But YA tells me this is possibly similar to Patterson's MAXIMUM RIDE series? About genetically engineered kids with wings -- which is why I guessed Sci Fi.
Otherwise it's a simpler answer - Fantasy creatures!
Fantasy
ReplyDeleteBecause of the calling, the flying creatures.
Fantasy.
ReplyDeleteThe MC can fly for whatever reason.
Fantasy.
ReplyDeleteFantasy. Flying without a plane.
ReplyDeleteFantasy
ReplyDeleteThe tone is of a distant different world