feathered creature

“They’re frightening to me,” he said, and seconds later some tiny feathered creature — a sparrow, maybe — flew so close to his head that he flinched.

It’s the Therizinosaurus, a feathered creature that is no less menacing even as an herbivore.

As the fashionably-dressed fowl luxuriates in his book, a gigantic paw with sharp claws reaches from outside the building and swipes away the wall behind the feathered creature, exposing the room to air.

Pondering the situation with expressive gestures, the feathered creature strikes on an idea and disappears down a nearby ladder.

I shot the feathered creature with random color as if I were Flora, Fauna and Merryweather all in one, toying with the chroma of the universe as if I alone possessed the power of the fairy godmothers of “Sleeping Beauty.”