I've long struggled to define the genre of this story but perhaps I don't need to. The good folks at Furtive Dalliance accepted it for publication and you can purchase your copy here.
The inspiration for this story came from a particularly vivid dream about firebirds, thunder lizards and wild mustangs. No doubt it gestated after reading "Death Constant Beyond Dying" by Gabriel García Márquez while dealing with some health issues that were ever present on my mind at the time.