Albino Pigeon

A Supernatural Thriller of Urban Paranoia

It was a simple choice. A good father, Owen Kaplan just wanted to make his daughter happy. All he had to do was shoo a strange, white bird away from the prairie dog exhibit. He just chose wrong.

The bird is watching him. With startling crimson eyes, it follows him from the Bronx Zoo, appearing as an impossible reflection on the subway, a silent sentinel on his office window, and a terrifying intruder in his own home. It leaves a single, perfect feather in his daughter’s sealed cereal box. It leaves a grotesque, meticulous spiral on his locked balcony.

As his world is dismantled piece by piece, Owen is trapped in a waking nightmare. Is he the victim of a relentless, supernatural entity, or is he simply losing his mind?

His wife sees a man consumed by delusion. His therapist offers rational explanations for the terror. The technology that could prove his story glitches, crashes, and fails, leaving him utterly alone. This creature is not just a stalker; it’s an inquisitor, and it has found him guilty.

This gripping descent into madness blurs the line between reality and paranoia, where a common city pest becomes the terrifying instrument of a dark, cosmic judgment.

I wanted to hate it more than I did

The cover image is a hilariously awful AI image. I expected the same of the story.
However, it was... actually kinda good? in a "story posted on Reddit" sort of way. I'd have upvoted it before leaving a vaguely encouraging comment and moving on, so. yeah, it's ok.