The room’s window opened into a sloping garden with a clothesline and a bird bath. The lawn inclined uphill. Wrens visited the garden on both mornings, swept effortlessly through the greens as if their bodies knew no gravity. They were as small as mice. I would have locked them in my memory as winged shrews, […]
Annika Nerf
Annika Nerf is a fiction and nature writer, and a pocket-sized poet. She has written an antiwar novel on transgenerational trauma for her PhD from the State University of New York at Albany. She is the 2026 writer-in-residence for the Swiss Society for the European Convention on Human Rights.