I Read Stories: When The Cowbirds Come To Carry Your Sister Away by Audra Kerr Brown

 

When The Cowbirds Come To Carry Your Sister Away by Audra Kerr Brown in The Disappointed Housewife

You watch as the cowbirds come. As your mother tells you about the egg. As she sends your sister out to the great flock of the cowbirds.

And then you see yourself.

Read This: For a flash fiction of magic and revelation
Don’t Read This: You don’t know about cowbirds and their brood parasite habits, and find it worrying to have them transplanted onto humans