Fiction: The Wild Turkey of Childhood by John Brantingham
Photo Source: Unsplash Sandra comes out to the parking lot after work to find a flock of wild turkeys surrounding her car. She’s parked way out at the back of the lot next to the woods. She stops a moment to watch them, the first moment of the day when she hasn’t been staring at a screen, trying to solve a problem that her boss Todd is panicking about. And now here she is in the orange twilight of a perfect evening watching birds in the necessary tasks of what she imagines is a calm life....