Always Take Off Into the Wind by Noel Beebe

Our cover piece for this issue of flashquake had a creature in a fantasy landscape that is half-human, half-insect.  The skull of the creature has ridges of bone that form a triangular pattern on the forehead.  The same bony ridges encircle the eyes like a pair of aviator goggles.   The transparent wings seem too delicate to lift the weight of the body,   The creature takes the foreground with bright colors compared to the mysterious dark tangle of tree trunks that form the background.