New England town. A woman working with herbs. This is all that needs to be said to know exactly where this story is going.

Kind of. It most certainly, absolutely, does go there. But then it leaves and goes somewhere else. But it comes back, so, I don’t really know what to tell you. Enjoy the story? It is short, is moderately engaging, and it very much maintains the stereotypes of the settlers in that region. Sorry, was I supposed to only provide good reasons for reading this? Here’s a little incentive: the bird wins in the end.

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