three wayside stories

[asakiyume]

One: The Sparrow Entrepreneurs




You can have a shopping cart, but you must pay to rent them.

The rent is cheap though: a few crumbs of bread or bits of cracker will buy you several hours.

Don't forget to pay the ones who live below, too:






Two: The Stream Thorns

In winter, this stream grows giant thorns. They make good swords, I'm told: the blood of those they strike congeals into rubies and garnets.






Three: The Glazier and the Vandal

The glazier and the vandal play a game here. No one else knows the rules, except that when the glazier scores, a window pane appears, and when the vandal scores, a window pane disappears.

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

We met some very brazen little sparrows on the High Line yesterday, just hanging out on this birdhouse/feeder/sculpture completely unperturbed by all the surging crowd passing by.

The glazier seems to be behind;then again, I wonder if there are more full or empty windowframes in the world right now. A global game between them would be very hard to track.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The vandal likes to change the rules of the game, it seems to me, but the glazier is creative in meeting the challenge.