Tabitha Potts

Prompt: Someone Keeps Sending You Severed Heads of Birds - From Episode 06

Someone keeps sending you severed heads of birds. They arrived packed tight in Styrofoam. You can't bear to open the parcels. But you have no choice. Each open beak a cry of outrage. You keep them all on the mantelpiece. One day wings arrive, the next squat bodies and fan like tails. Twig like feet. As you watch beak, bone and feather twitch and pulse. Recombine. You open the window and here a rush of wings.

Tabitha has had stories long-listed for the Royal Academy Pindrop Award and the Sunderland Short Story Award, one was a Finalist in MIROnline's Folk Tale Festival and one was Highly Commended in MIROnline's Booker Prize Competition. She also runs ‘Story Radio’, a short story podcast in her spare time which we both recommend you all listen to at storyradio.org and you can read more stories on her website at tabithapotts.com