Bellow is my first attempt at a flash fiction piece that I did for the september flash fiction contest on SSFWORLD.COM.  The premis was to write a story involving or related to a feather.  The story need to be under 1,000 words, which this is in no way.  I couldn’t bring myself to cut it down so I just wrote another story instead, which I will also post.  I haven’t sinished editing it but when I do I will replace this version with the new edit.  Why even bother?  Who knows?

The radar blipped again. Kawataba looked out …