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Flash fiction · From the Margen catalogue

The macaw reads the offers better than the PA system

09:12 · NIEVES ALCORTA (head of security): Control to all units. We have a large bird in the main aisle, ground floor. Repeat: large bird.

09:13 · CEFERINO PARDO (pet shop, unit 118): 118 here. I haven't lost anything.

09:13 · NIEVES: Nobody said you had lost anything, Ceferino.

09:14 · CEFERINO: Just clarifying, in case.

09:21 · NIEVES: It's on the first-floor railing. Blue and yellow. A good half metre.

09:22 · CEFERINO: That could belong to anyone.

09:38 · NIEVES: Ceferino, the animal has just said "three for two on tinned goods until Sunday".

09:38 · CEFERINO: The PA says that forty times a day. It'll have picked it up from the PA.

09:39 · NIEVES: The PA has been broken for two weeks.

09:39 · CEFERINO: Copy that.

09:40 · CEFERINO: On my way with the cage.

09:41 · NIEVES: Bring the ladder too.

09:41 · CEFERINO: And somebody tell him to stop, that offer expired in March.