You Fly as You Wish

“I needed a real monster. So I made it a bird.”

“Why?”

“Because you can’t reach an agreement with a bird.”

Yuri Hertz. From a conversation.

The bird was the only reason he still managed to get this job. Otherwise, he’d never have seen that salary—like his own ears without a mirror. The résumé he left three weeks ago at the Bird Yard was prepared pretty cautiously. He recorded the cassette on a sparrow—one that they all understood, more or less, anyway.

Point five was especially hard for him. Birds are fantastically sensitive to the slightest changes in tonal quality—detec…