VIVA CUBA PIGEON. By Susannah Rodríguez Drissi

Susannah Rodríguez Drissi
Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:39:41 +0000
FROM THE DECEMBER ISSUE, IN POETRY AND PROSE, Stories, Fidel Castro

Facial recognition abilities make pigeons ideal assassins. But nothing of the sort went on that night. That night, he was hoping to dart out of the crate and fly as far as Timbuktu. Because life in captivity is, well, for the birds—other birds, that is. And he had his eyes set on a different future. …