Pigeons are just a type of bird. Like a peacock. Like the beautiful swan at the lake.
“Look, daddy! So pretty!” a five-year-old coos.
From a distance, an old woman watches the lively duo as she tosses bread to a pigeon.
“Who says we ugly ducklings are better off changing?”
Angelica Jimenez is a teenage writer who currently serves as an editor for her high school’s literary magazine, Sin Fronteras. She has also been published in Friday Flash Fiction and has served as a community ambassador at Write the World, a global platform for teenage writers.
bless you for writing this! It vividly brings back my toddler Goddaughter’s joy at these birds. xx
It often seems that the very young and the very old have a wisdom that those in the middle have temporarily lost.
Well done.