Eating Crow About Talking Crow Nevermore
After the last entry, Council of Crows, I guess I felt the need to delve a bit more deeply into the subject of corvids. My wife, who is usually my first reader, didn't really like the idea of a talking crow in A WhiskeyJack in a Murder of Crows (there was that darn mistyping of JAck again for me...Ug! See A Tale of the Two Jacks to understand why I hate typing JAck). She felt it was unrealistic to have a talking crow in the story. Even when I pointed out it was a raven and it was merely mimicking, she still…