Pick Me Up! Special

Birds of a FEATH

Rolling over in bed, I got an unpleasant surprise.

What’s that on my knee? I thought to myself, feeling something wet and slimy.

‘Phoenix!’ I winced.

The culprit was my innocent white feathered angel, Phoenix the gosling.

Despite her continual pooping in bed, pecking and pulling out of my chest hair, she was the only chick I needed in my life.

Though I have tried to have girlfriends in the past.

‘It’s me or the goose,’ an ex told me as she left in a flap.

But Phoenix has always been my number one.

It was April 2020, and it was

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