Stories tagged with "crow"

  • Set in Stone Inspired by text

    by Stovohobo about 1 month ago 5 out of 5 stars

    “So you killed him?” I asked one day as the Scarecrow and I sat on a tree stump.

    It creaked its burlap sack head towards me,...

  • My Plywood Guardian Inspired by text

    by Never Explain 2 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    Despite it’s jeering, the crow flitted over to rest on the Wooden Man’s shoulder.

    Everything went in slow motion. The Scarec…

  • Crow Up

    by Fredösphere 3 months ago 4 out of 5 stars

    George thought this one was unusually arrogant, even for a crow.

    “You can’t do it forever, you know,” he said. “Keeping us t…

  • The Boy, The Girl, and The Black Crow

    by Ana Cristina 7 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    Once upon a time there lived a boy and a girl who were poorer than even church mice, so poor that their only roof was the sky…

  • Not My House Inspired by a photo

    by THX 0477 10 months ago 5 out of 5 stars

    “I don’t want to go in there,” said the small boy. No one heard him. The crossroads of the paths was empty save him alone. Tr…

  • Evil Defines the Good Inspired by text

    by Richard Peck about 1 year ago 5 out of 5 stars

    It wasn’t the whistle of wind past twigs or the soft grind of wet snow that haunted the Mossman’s leafy ears, but the Crows v…