The animals are gone. All of them. Except, of course, for the parrot. The one telling me to kill. "Pretty Bird" takes pulls you into a bizarre future where anonymity is the most prized fact of life, and there are those who will kill to protect that fact. A writer struggling with a drug addiction wakes up one morning to find a parrot on his porch. The only problem is, the animals all died off long ago. Well, that's not the only problem. It also wants him to kill people.