Category: persons of interest

  • Subway Shrugging

    When I got onto the subway, I took a seat across from a couple. He looked like he had eaten two of her, and his indigestion was causing him to regret his lunch. She kept her head turned away from his, so it appeared as an unwanted growth rather than a wife resting on a husband’s shoulder.…

  • A Ride for Connie

    “Hey! What are you doing?” His voice was cool. She knew it would be. “I was just looking,” said Connie. The man hardly startled her even though she didn’t see him come up from behind. She had been sitting on the side of a building that housed the saloon where her mother worked, next to a door…

  • Golden Retriev-him

    I followed this thin leggy girl up the stairs from the subway. Her legs were much longer than mine so she walked a lot faster, and after a block she was a good 30 paces ahead. I cursed her and her long legs and me and my short legs and thought about how much further…

  • Fun with a corpus

    She looked down at the sleeping baby. He looked so peaceful now in his stroller, smashed in among the other pigeons taking their daily cramped commute into the city. He had spent the entire night awake and crying. Normally, he was not a fussy baby, which is why she wanted to go check on him.…

  • A street is only as gold as its fish

    Living in a city that has buildings on top of buildings and more buildings within those buildings and pigeons living up over around above and below other pigeons…a lot of stuff comes in, but at a certain point it can’t come in unless something comes out. I’ve certainly gotten some good furniture and books (pre bed…

  • A Lady Pigeon’s blue period

    Like it or not, I’ve always been unconsciously drawn to monochromatic color schemes. If I had a dollar for each time I left the house and got to wherever I was going and heard “Oh wow you coordinated your shoes and nails and bag and belt and shirt and pants and underpants and sunglasses!” and…