Birds (short story) [Kindle Edition]

Angela Meyer (Author)

Book Description

'It’s just a job. It’s just a day. Everyone does it. People are worse off somewhere. There is nothing wrong. The walls are not closing in. You are fine.'

A near-future story about anxiety.

Originally published in Wet Ink: Issue 14 (2009)

Cover: artwork by Lily Mae Martin, design by Kenneth Erickson

Product Details

• File Size: 13 KB
• Print Length: 5 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0050BQXHS
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #641,200 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars A Dreamlike Journey January 16, 2013

By M. D. J Baker

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I read this story a little while ago, but I had a dream about it last night and thought I'd write a review, which is something I don't often do on Amazon. I think when we dream about someone's art, it shows that it has spoken to us on a number of levels. This is a really nicely written short story, Angela Meyer has a talent for snappy metaphors. The main character is very intriguing, and the story is not what you might expect. I don't want to include any spoilers because I think this story is best met in the way that I met it, with absolutely no idea what it's about. But it is a kind of fantasy, or magical realism, that has an emotional depth which is surprising for a short work. I really liked this story, and not in the Facebook way, in a real-world, I'm thinking about it and dreaming about it kind of way. Please check it out. You won't regret it.

More About the Author

Angela Meyer is a Melbourne-based writer and reviewer. Her short stories, articles and reviews have been published widely. She's currently working on a novel through a Doctor of Creative Arts in the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney.

Interests in life and writing include: death, spectacle, consumerism, identity, sexuality, drinking, David Bowie, meta-fiction, post-modernism, mixed genres, everything vintage, travel, hearts, galaxies, obsession, sensitivity, the absurd and sensation.

She is publishing some of her (published) short stories to the Kindle in 2011 to give them a longer life.

Publications include: Torpedo Greatest Hits, The Lifted Brow, A Cafe in Space (The Anais Nin Journal), Australian Book Review, Hecate, The Sex Mook, Idiom 23, Lip Magazine, Page Seventeen, Southerly, The Death Mook, Wet Ink, Cordite Poetry Review, Mascara Literary Review, AntiTHESIS, Bookslut and the Sydney Morning Herald.