A teenage girl stands on a skyscraper, peering over the edge and looking down. Below, the city looks like a toy. Cold wind rushes past her. “One more step,” she says, “and he’s mine.”
A crow perches on the shoulder of a man, while in his hand he holds an egg that was just stolen from a nest nearby. “You are beautiful,” the crow says.
A man on the ground. His body is broken, and he has been trampled. A young girl, barely over a toddler. She’s holding a small bird, which she feeds seed as it stands in her palm. “It will fly again,” she says.
A woman with a mane of golden hair, sitting on the branch of a tree, looking down at a crowd of people. She opens her mouth, and a bird flies out.
A man with a tattered brown fedora and a white mustache. He holds a gun in his hand. A woman, in a brown dress and diamond earrings, glares at him with dark eyes. A flock of birds moves through the sky.
A young woman with a shaved head is sitting in her bathtub. She tosses a handful of white powder into the water and watches the colorful birds begin to appear.