He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.

I’m trying to find someone who doesn’t want to be found.””That can be as hard as looking for a shadow.

Mean people are meaningless.

It’s still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I’m sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being...

It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It’s always dangerous...

I head a bitterness that hadn’t been there before. Something was changing inside him. He’d had enough of following the rules.

James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once...