“I think Lucas is saying there’s a bird in the tree,” Sandrine told her friend. She dropped the spoon she’d been about to dip into the jam. “A bird that shouldn’t be there?”

A woman tumbles into a journey through space and time and learns that her young nephew may be more capable than she believed.

Check out “Flying Home” in Issue 5.2 of Hotch Potch. Download for free here.