Year of The Sparrow
Author: Aaron Mutua
last update2023-09-08 15:30:25

13th October 2004, the day his jail time turned on him, what he mirrored as a paradise far from the world’s troubles…no rent burdens, no food bills, no power outs, what else could he want…but that was the thing he had everything and what the devil won’t give he takes, and he doesn’t ask. The annual Year of the Sparrow, a once in every decade celebration where the red necked spawns gather from the deep forested coast of West Netherlands descending the unbelievable 100km mile migration over the sea and the scorching deserts to eventually make their conspicuous landing in the mid-October for the end result of the past ten-year erosion period. After the rivers end up reducing as the daunting dry times near specks of magnesium mixed with slight ammonia sparkling crystals are left behind and clamping year-after-year they eventually form lumps of irresistible salt nutrients. A risk worth 100km journey, but if one was a sparrow, they would do the same it’s like an invitation to the Queen and
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