Pete Duval’s story collection, Rear View, won the Connecticut Book Award for Fiction, the Bakeless Prize, and was one of five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. He is the fiction editor of Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose.
I, Budgie
The budgie speaks of himself in the third person. This is not an affectation. However hungry, the budgie has never eaten road kill. Nor will the budgie, ever. How far removed, the budgie often asks himself, is he from the feral state? And when it comes, this state, what will it look...
