Today's #flashfiction A Feathered Real Estate Dispute

“Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.”

Poseidon* #quote

          Yesterday when hanging out with Jessica I played one of her Japanese games(since she's a Japanese college major she gets Japanese video games). The game was Hey You Pikachu(There was an English version made). Anyway in it you talk to Pikachu with a microphone, but it was the Japanese version so you had to talk to the Pikachu in Japanese. For the sake of shenanigans I was the one playing it despite the fact I know pretty much no Japanese with Jessica helping me with what to say into the microphone attached to the game. Sometimes when it didn't listen I yelled at the Pikachu in English and for some reason a few times that managed to be successful. Anyway onto the flash fiction!

A Feathered Real Estate Dispute

           Two doves landed on a bird house at the same time. They ruffled their tooth-white feathers at each other and jabbed their heads forward. They clawed the roof of the bird house. Their heights and weights matched so closely that the most experienced bird watcher couldn't tell which bird was older. The specific age didn't matter as both doves reached maturity and wanted their nests. And both knew a birdhouse could be the best nest. Weather proof, with humans even giving them free food and additional protection. The dove on the western side of the house inherited her mother's name of Gentle Breeze while the dove on the eastern side was named Long Spring because she was born in an exceptionally long season. The names are sound better and come off great for mating songs in the dove language.

         “This nest is mine!” Gentle Breeze shouted in dove. The shriek would sound beautiful to a human ear and certainly would be classified as a gentle tweet.

          “No, it is mine! Find your own!” Long Spring yelled back another beautiful tweet.

           This argument didn't become any more complicated than the two birds tweeting back and forth at each other. The old married couple that lived at the house came out and sat on the porch in front of the house. They couldn't tell the gender of the birds so they assumed it was two birds in a mating song falling in love. For hours the old couple talked while the birds “sang” and enjoyed the wonderful sounds. Eventually Long Spring and Gentle Breeze started pecking at each other while the old couple began to think that they saw the first dove kisses.

           The beautiful "song" between Gentle Breeze and Long Spring ended when a massive dove came down onto the bird house. The two arguing birds bolted as this third resident, named Gargantuan Egg because of how large her egg was, asserted that she owned the bird house now. She built her nest and lived happily ever after.