The Nature of a Bird: A Short Story

Wren is a young woman who finds herself in a situation seemingly predetermined by circumstance and the nature of those that surround her. From a cold basement kitchen, she sits with a newborn on her chest, another beside her and wrestles with memories of how she arrived at this point. Wren is at the mercy of a woman whose jealousy and dissatisfaction with her own life fuels her cruelty, and a man for whom beauty cannot be appreciated without the presence of the abhorrent. In her impossibly unbalanced world, how can she be certain of her own nature, and ever hope to feel free.