Lovebird as Meany . . .

There is no way to feed it or fill the water tray without being viciously pecked at with a razor sharp beak that the parrot hones daily on the pumice perch.

Reclusive bird lover Calder didn’t expect to have to face repeated attacks while merely attempting to tend to his new pet's needs. All Calder hoped for, when he gave his TV set away (to break free of his addiction to it), was to pick up a chirping, happy warbler at the local pet store to fill the void in his suddenly way too silent humble digs.

 What he has, instead, is a nightmare he is ill-prepared to deal with.

For fans of Dean Koontz, Shirley Jackson, Jack Ketchum, Thomas Harris, Charles Bukowski, et al., and prefer their fiction raw and gritty––with a slice of twisted humor.