From “The Counsel of Vultures” Sandra Cooke Jameson
It happened that, in the course of a hard-fought pursuit, a sparrow tricked a hawk into diving at its reflection in a human window. The sparrow, which had eaten seeds from the yard for many weeks, knew...
View ArticleFrom “The Sparrow-Parables” by Sandra Cooke Jameson
Echyd told tales, and Oesoedd related parables. The younger fledgelings of the flock much preferred Sparrow1’s rollicking and often bawdy yarns of nuthatches and titmice, but Sparrow2 was the elder...
View ArticleFrom “The Illusive Elusive Sparrows” by Sandra Cooke Jameson
In what became an internet sensation, an ornithologist once wrote about a colony of sparrows who, due to a genetic mutation exacerbated by the founder effect on their small offshore island home, could...
View ArticleFrom “The Mother of Sparrows” by Sandra Cooke Jameson
In the old days, when the world was but young and the creatures were but new upon it, a sparrow approached its young mother, the Earth below, with a request. “Mother,” it said most politely, “I have a...
View ArticleFrom “An Unsolicited Egg” by Gauci Goldenstein
With delighted quibbles, the bird alights. A cuckoo enters the nest, level and light, balancing a bit to clutch twigs for a smaller bird. A nearby sparrow shouts a warning as the interloper lays a...
View ArticleFrom “The First Story of Lwyr” by Sandra Cooke Jameson
This is the story of the Age of Sparrows. In ages past, before time was time and the world was the world, sparrows ruled all. They were great and all and proud and took what they would. They were the...
View ArticleFrom “The Second Story of Lwyr” by Sandra Cooke Jameson
This is the story of the island of the sparrows. In the middle of the Greatest Water, over which only the greatest of the great fliers can soar, a land once arose. Completely new to the World Beneath,...
View ArticleFrom “Holidays of the Sparrows” by Sandra Cooke Jameson
Seedsprout Marking the beginning of fledging season and the end of the cold, hard winter, the sparrows venerate Seedsprout over all other holidays. It does not always exactly coincide with the warming...
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