Category: pigeon accounts

A woman was sitting alone at a bar. She was drinking a gin gimlet. A man came in and asked if the seat next to her was taken. She made a show of looking around at all the other empty chairs at the bar and then said, “no.” She detected a Southern drawl and assumed…

Before the leaves grow back the bird nests appear as rheumatic lumps on the branches of the trees. She looks at her own knotty joints and tried imagining life springing forth, little birds chirping instead of bones grinding and synovial fluid popping. Synovial sounds too much like jovial, she thinks. There is nothing joyous about…

She was putting her suitcase on the conveyor belt in the security line. Ahead of her, a young father and his son had placed their bags and and coats in bins. The father started to take his shoes off and the son made a fuss about not wanting to do the same. “How old are…

In the middle of the night she hears the bus exhale a heavy sigh of exasperation. “Must be having another tough one out there,” she thinks. The next day after work, she stops at the bodega and buys two cold beers. “You look tired,” the cashier says. “Long day?” “You bet,” she says. “Can I…

 Years ago, she had tried writing a story about a man who waits for a woman in the rain outside of a subway station in order to greet her with an umbrella. The story came to her after she encountered a man waiting outside of a subway station in the rain with two open…

My friend and I were walking through a field next to a river, just after the last of the winter’s snow had melted. Dead grass padded our feet, and bare branches scratched at our legs. Everything was brown, one way or another. Tan or beige or chestnut or coffee. All browns. That’s why the robin’s…

A very large dog approached a table on the bar’s patio where four friends sat drinking in the spring afternoon sun. Though it had a body like a black bear who had just come out of hibernation and a snout like a hairy crocodile, the dog seemed more human than animal as it gingerly sat…