I Read Stories: Bird Swallowers by Sumitra Singam

 

Bird Swallowers by Sumitra Singam in Temple In A City

After the men cut their voice boxes out, women take to swallowing birds. This is not simple or easy, yet in the end they have voices and a language that men can’t understand. They are banished, but thrive, are threatened but the birds can come out to protect.

A powerful piece of fabulism that reflects on voicelessness and oppression. And the joy of finding other ways of living.

Read This: Meditation on hope that flirts with allegory
Don’t Read This: Birds get swallowed, people are mutilated