Sarah Connell’s Reviews > Said the Dead > Status Update

“Those birds, she knew, would show her what to do, so she counted them as they landed, all cluck and coo.
One. Two.
Three - four.
Five.
If a sixth ... If a sixth, she would leave.
As if triggered by this thought, the door buzzed itself open, startling the pigeons from wire to wing, a grand scattering.”