Jenny: Tales from P.A.W.S., #4

By Debbie Manber Kupfer

"But birds need to fly! You cannot keep them imprisoned."

"Do they indeed?" said the man. "We shall see about that."

A short tale from the world of P.A.W.S.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Debbie Manber Kupfer
• Release date: Mar 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9781386991045

Debbie Manber Kupfer

Debbie grew up in the UK in the East London suburb of Barking. She has lived in Israel, New York and North Carolina and somehow ended up in St. Louis, where she works as a writer and freelance puzzle constructor of word puzzles and logic problems. She lives with her husband, two children and a very opinionated feline. She believes that with enough tea and dark chocolate you can achieve anything!

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Tales from P.A.W.S.

Copyright © 2017  Debbie Manber Kupfer

All rights reserved.

This story first appeared in the anthology, 13 Candles, under the title, The Costume.

The authors of this anthology produced retained their rights to their individual works.

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it is yours.

If it doesn’t, it never was.

Proverb

Jenny

For Halloween Jenny made herself a costume of a thousand feathers. She had wanted to be a fairy, as she had been every year since her birth, but the birds called to her this time, leaving her their feathers of a hundred hues. She gathered them and wove them into wings. If only she could fly...

In her dreams she soared through the clouds, but each morning she would wake and step from her bed and look at the growing costume that sat on the chair in the corner of the room. Surely at seventeen she was too old for Halloween now, and in any case, she had no one to trick-or-treat with, not since her best friend Miri had moved away. But still, the birds called to her and left her their gifts, which she attached to the wings of her costume.

Her mom had complained when a robin soared through the open