Here's my entry for @jayna's new and improved microfiction story contest - the prompt is "grace". Here's a link to her post: link
Shattered Dream
The ice rink was crowded with amateurs brought out by the mild weather. Jan was here every day possible, practicing after the accident. The Jr Olympic final tryouts were in five weeks.
She was grace and fluidity personified as she glided around the rink. Observers around the rink paused their hot chocolate sipping to admire her performance.
Jan was picking up speed to practice a camel spin and it happened in a heart stopping instant. Choosing between the falling child and her Olympic dreams, she felt the ankle snap again as she crashed into the retaining wall.
