Coming 2025: in paperback and ebook.
A young adult novel.
Folks laugh when I say that my parrot is smarter’n me. I ain’t jokin’ though. And I ain’t no dummy neither. Sage is just some kinda bird genius.
When he first showed up in my yard, it was fun. Teachin’ him words and whatnot. Bringin’ him to school. Miss Clark’s eyes buggin’ out when Sage took over math class. That was so weird but cool. I was cool too. Till it all changed.
Folks got scared. Said it weren’t right for a bird to be that smart. Called it unnatural, and other words that weren’t so kind. Science guys got interested, but only to split his head. See what his brain look like or some such. Most others just wanted to wring his neck like he was some dumb chicken or somethin’. Like that was okay to do, just ’cause he’s a bird.
Thing is, there ain’t no law against killing a parrot. Even a real smart one. So now it’s up to me and him. And now they got an axe for both our necks.
