bluebird

a short story about a veteran, Gen-Z names, and a bird trapped in a grocery store

Earle is one of the men of the big and open land, one of those pastoral folks who encroach upon civilization every once in an epoch or so, in the cycle of societal and systemic upheaval that coincides with and results from the hubris that their opposing agricultural urbanites eventually procure behind their walled kingdoms of plenty and comfort.

“I saw a…