The Parrot

<p class=ql-align-justify>One evening a parrot appears in the backyard of a Boston computer scientist known only as the coder. He entices the bird to perch on him but after it escapes he suffers life-threatening injuries when he tries to track it down. Since no one else has seen the parrot the coder and his family question his judgment. Perhaps his fondness for a powerful psychedelic accounts for his troubles. The advent of a more sinister explanation plunges the coder into crisis. He must verify and destroy his assailant or somehow heal a profound rift in his own psyche.</p>