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Pigeon (2023)

The dead don't look dead. That's what I've come to learn. Same thing seems to apply to animals. Even if you've watched a recording of someone dying, or seen them from birth up to the open casket, the part when things die never feels real. Death only feels true when you stand in the room where they once lived and breathed and smiled at you, and instead all you feel is how utterly cold the room is.

A story about a woman who has a dream about a taxidermy pigeon.

Pigeon was published as part of University of Exeter's Riptide Journal 2023 Anthology Museum Pieces and was edited by Rob Magnuson Smith and Andy Brown.

Pigeon was based on a specimen held at The Museum of Life Sciences in King's College London.

Unfortunately, Riptide Journal appears to no longer be available.