STORY STARTER
The first sentence of your story starts with ‘Birds circled overhead’.
Think about how the type of birds you choose can symbolise the themes of the story.
Prey
Birds circled overhead.
watching.
stalking every move.
taunting.
their wings with tattered feathers
talking.
about me.
I wondered if I sang
sweeter.
to think, would they like me.
better,
would they think my down is
softer.
Would my value prove
worthy.
to fly with them
Only.
If I weren't
weaker.
were
broader.
were
cleaner.
were
pointed.
correctly
not only
decaying.
They wouldn't play
predator.
I wouldn't play
dead.
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