Metal Dragon
Originally published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine issue 46
Li Li squinted into the shadowy space underneath the bridge, where struts formed a lacework of metal. Standing at the foot of the pylon, her feet in the slippery mud of the riverbank and her hands on the rungs of the ladder, she could already feel the pain.
It's suffering.
The people in the street blamed the government, and the government blamed foreign countries, that would never deliver all the things they promised. While everyone was blaming each other, and no one was doing anything, Li Li did her silent work.
She climbed up the pylon, into the smog-misty air that cast an orange haze over the city. Waves of pain pulsed down the ladder.
Hastily built with poor materials, the bridge had already taken
