Max was always a shy kid, slow to warm up to new people and content to spend long stretches on his own.
But when he got to school in the morning, it was like a curtain came down between him and the world.
A new subject came along in those pandemic years to once again capture his imagination: birds.
Maybe creatures that could fly and soar were an appealing notion during endless lockdowns, or maybe birds were just another vast universe for him to map.
Max borrowed bird books from the library and lay in bed reading them, absorbing facts and patterns, gathering arcane knowledge.
Persons:
Max, didn’t
Locations:
Texas