Monday, February 24, 2025

Crows

 

Crows

 

She left cookies out for them, and they brought her shiny things.

People annoyed her. She preferred the company of the crows.

She left her doors and windows open, and the crows came and went like Family.

Eventually, she withdrew into herself, depressed.

“My family is gone” she told the crows perched around her. “Why the hell am I still here?”

The day she decided to drive her car off the bridge, she left cookies out for the crows, but then couldn’t find her keys.

She never thought of looking up in the tree, where the crows had taken them.

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