Category: pigeon accounts

The second day of her vacation there was a big storm with heavy rains and high winds. The morning after was calm with a bit of a mess, like after a sneeze. She decided to take a walk to explore the neighborhood around her. There were puddles and downed palms to step around, but the…

An hour into a four hour flight, the man next to me started to watch a movie that took place in a submarine. I did not pay much attention because I don’t particularly care for those types of movies. But every now and then, I glanced over. Every scene looked the same. A half dozen…

Of course people exist outside of their jobs. He knew this. But it was still very disorienting to see two flight attendants in matching navy blue uniforms and nude pantyhose sitting and chatting on the subway. Did they always wear those uniforms? One of them was sipping from a small bottle of red wine, the…

She noticed a man that morning walking down the street. She noticed him because he was exceptionally tall. She would guess over seven feet. He had long curly hair and a strong looking nose, almost too big for his face. She would have forgotten all about him if it weren’t for the exceptionally short man…

They were in the bedroom that was his when he was young. “I used to smoke cigarettes in here.” He told her. She had not met him until much later in his life, but she had seen pictures of him as a child: his brown bowl cut and gap-toothed smile and bony knees making him…

She walked onto the train in heeled boots and a trench coat, belted up. Her eyes covered by sunglasses, her mouth and nose covered by a mask, her ears covered by headphones, her head covered by a beret. She reached out a gloved hand and gripped the pole. He was sitting next to the pole…

Sometimes she walked alone on streets and night and got nervous she was being followed. Maybe it was a sound or the way someone on the train looked at her. And when she started to fear for her life she started to think about how they would find her, splayed out on the sidewalk with…