"Pigeon"

Virginia Mortola

Lento Magazine - Fiction

May 2019

EXTRACT FROM THE TEXT

“While I was scraping, I remembered the day Miu appeared with a baby bird in her teeth. She dropped it next to Manu's bare feet, who didn't understand the offering. Manuela yelled at her. The cat pushed the little bird toward us with one of its paws. The baby bird's skin was as wrinkled as an old man's, with just a few damp gray feathers, its eyes closed. Just like one I found as a child under the shade of an eucalyptus tree. That time, I held the little body with both hands and searched among the tree's branches until I found the nest, too high. I stomped next to Miu's tail and screamed, imitating ferocious meows, to scare it away. Miu silently jumped toward the wall and disappeared.”
When you connect with a story, you create from emotion. Then, the illustration becomes much more powerful. It was very easy for me to connect with this small and simple, but above all, very real story.