Waiting for the Geese Again

Geese

PHOTO PROMPT © Jennifer Pendergast

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“We wouldn’t have this infestation if we didn’t make so many parks,” groused Mickey impatiently.

“What, Grandpa?” Fifteen-year-old Lydia stared out the passenger window.

“I said these damn geese are just like people. They’re always in the way, shit all over everything, and if one walks into traffic, all the rest follow.”

“Is it the Olympics or the elections?”

“Both,” he complained. “Everything.”

“You just don’t like change,” she countered with a sly smile.

“I don’t like stupidity and that’s what this is, all of it.”

“They’re almost across the street. “

“Ever taste goose pate?” Mick floored the accelerator.

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S is for Sheep

s is for sheep

© James Pyles

Daniel’s eyes widened with terror as the enormous bird of prey descended toward them with the speed of a hawk.

“This is going to be close, Daniel.”

He could feel the grip of her pinions tighten around him, securing the boy to her body, then she suddenly changed the angle of her descent, making an almost vertical dive for a group of trees at the edge of the plains. She twisted so she presented her belly rather than her back to the roc’s talons in a desperate effort to protect the ten year old.

He felt the shudder of an impact and heard Olivia cry out, and then Gerald was ascending.

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