We, the Fleet
Novelette 7,700 words Recommended by 4 award/anthology sources
"We watched the stranger fall from the sky. Our daughters sent us frantic signals as they tracked her burning trail. She crashed on the beaches by the deeper ocean, her once beautiful white and silver carapace blackened and bent. Her lights flashed once, desperately, then went still. She smoked in the sands. The waves crashed around her dead eyes."
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