Category: pigeon accounts

She shopped online instead of in stores to avoid being asked if she’d like to save by opening a store card. She crossed the street and would even walk in the wrong direction when she saw a person on the corner in a blue vest asking people if they had a moment for the rainforest.…

Two men ambulated through the door, clomping their walkers like tired cattle on a long drive. They moaned and sighed and laughed and creaked while settling their sagging behinds onto the high bar stools. “Easier to get into than a dining room chair.” One said to me. “Good thing we like to drink.” Said the…

They did not know whether the tornado would actually show up. They were not from tornado country and had no idea how serious to take the buzzy warning that had lit up each of their phones. A tornado felt impossible just two hours outside of the city. But so did a cornfield, and yet here…

The train was mercifully I crowded that morning. He was still groggy from not enough sleep and grew tired as he watched the woman across from him sticking and pulling a threaded needle up and down on a white circle cloth. The thread was a deep purple color, like the veins he could see in…

She settled into her aisle seat and smiled at the man next to her. He smiled back. She reached for her buckle and realized the man was sitting on its end. She asked him kindly to reach it for her, and when he did she saw he had painted his nails with pink glitter. “I…

The weather was mild that evening in the neighborhood but there were no other people outside, everyone was inside watching the following on television: the Tony Awards, a rerun of Sanford and Son, a news program with a bookish looking woman, and a show she did not recognize that featured a cop standing in front…

The flight attendant stood at the front of the aisle, gesturing toward the exits with his hands. He was very clean: hair trimmed short around the sides and combed slick and tight on the top; hands looking the right amount of moist and fingernails perfect ovals with none of the white showing. I was sitting…