Love In the Winged City - Story Only

An experimental horror love story. Here is a taste:

“You look, very pretty Mary. Pretty Mary. Is that a new hat? Very elegant. Almost, like a little brown budgie." Mr. Peach White thinks budgies are the cutest things in the world and the compliment makes me blush. "Yes, new hat. It was made by the milliner what specializes in human heads. Near the river."