Category: pigeon accounts

She was not happy so she walked out of her house and kept walking until she realized she was hungry. There was a Korean restaurant across the street from where she stood and she remembered she had liked Korean when they had eaten it together. So she went in and ordered the steaming stone pot.…

The man has a knot in the drawstring of his pants. He does not notice it right away. As he walks, his pants start to sag. He pulls them up when he gets to the street corner, thinking he will use the time it takes for the light to change to tighten his pants. This…

They are putting up a new building right next to where the train I take to work exits the elevated station. At first, unaccustomed to there being anything there, I find myself frightened that we are about to hit the foreign structure when it suddenly appears. But we never do. Now though, I am prepared…

I struggle with being helpful during natural disasters. I could give money. and sometimes I do, but I know what I am able to give is scant compared to what is needed. What I like to do instead, and what I think is more helpful, is to study the pictures in the news. (If I…

She had to take a Lyft home from work and though her driver has been very talkative, he thankfully keeps the conversation light and uncontroversial. He talks about the history of the Manhattan Bridge, the owl that has recently escaped from Central Park Zoo, and the necessary danger of space heaters. She is nearly home…

He was moments away from cracking the Sudoku puzzle on his phone when the bodies standing in front of him parted to reveal a man not much older than himself pushing a walker. He knew that everyone on the crowded train was looking at him now, waiting for him to stand up and offer the…

If she had never seen someone sniffing cocaine before, she would not know what the woman in first class was doing. The French tipped pinky nail lingering a moment too long right below her pink nostril, the heaving inhale followed by sharp sniffs, the refusal to look anyone in the eye as she brought her…