List: Babble Drabbles

Title: The City

Drabble:
“Breast and wings! Breast and wings!”
The words echoed above the roar of the grinding metal rail line. The steel girders that supported the decaying city rattled under the pressure of the sound. The residents hardly noticed. The incessant noise, the swirl of blood and feathers, the smell of the dead birds hanging from the butcher’s window – none mattered. Anything that resembled what was once known as beauty – the serene silence or the arch of a swan’s body floating on the lake – was dead. The city was beyond saving. Its people were simply parasites, living greedily off of its remains.