I once heard that birds can remember faces of humans so that they can discern who has been kind towards them and those who haven't.

I have accurately proved that true. For five days straight now, I have been observed, followed, and attacked by countless birds. Crows, ravens, every type of gull, pigeon you name it.

Every morning goes like this. I leave my apartment, and I'm greeted with hundreds of birds staring at me from the roofs of the apartment complexes. There they sit and stare at me, quiet as the wind, their heads following me with every move I make.

I head to work on my bike and I see more and more birds lining the roofs of every building as I bike through town. With swarms of them flying after me, observing my every move.

Since I start work so early in the morning, so early that it's me alone in these busy streets. None believes me when I tell them about the birds. Since they always seem to vanish just as I'm no longer alone.

During my lunch breaks, I usually go out for a smoke, but every time I do, I get swarmed and attacked by birds from every direction. It has gotten so bad that I have quit smoking all together.

When I end my shift, and get home, I'm once again greeted with the birds sitting on the roofs of the apartment buildings. Still quiet and just watching.

At first i was scared shitless. I was barely able to walk out of my own home without feeling scared. When this first started to happen, I started to fake being sick to my boss so that I didn't have to walk out of my house. I've been scared of these feathery monsters since I was a kid, this whole scenario is just a big nightmare.

However, I couldn't keep this sick act for long. I needed to work, I needed money. So eventually, I got myself out and thus started my routine.

I have tried to tell my friends about it, but they think I'm just seeing things since I wake up so early. For when I try to get them to see them with me, they aren't there. When I try to record or take photos of them, they swarm me and take my phone away to drop it far away from me. Or they simply just fly behind me so that they won't be seen by anyone else but me.

They are smart. Really smart. I once heard that some birds have entered their own version of the stone age. Using highways and cars to crack nuts or make noises similar to human speech.

On one occasion, I heard a crow squawk at me. It stood right in front of me on the middle of the road. It was a day where I had decided to walk to work, so I didn't have my bike or any helmet to protect me from bird attacks.

So when it suddenly appeared in front of me, I felt a bit scared. Like I was facing a bear and not a bird. Unprotected and weak to its influence.

The crow squawked at me some more. It's noises got louder and louder. I tried to walk past it but it spread out its wings making it look bigger. Casuing me to panic.

Are they going to swarm me? What do they want? Are I in danger? Where some of the thoughts running through my head at the moment.

The crows squawk got louder and louder, but it sounded different. It's tone shifted and the squaws started to sounded more like words. That's was when I realized what was happening.

It was speaking to me.

But not just that. I quickly realized what it was saying.

"A-dam" it squawked.

"A-dam! A-dam! Adam! Adam!" it squeaked some more.

It was saying my name.

Then more birds joined in. The birds on the roof are now also chanting my name.

Is there nobody hearing this?! I thought.

"What do you want with me!?" I screamed.

"Adam! Adam!" the birds continued.

"Leave me alone! What have i done to you!?" I roared.

I fell to my knees, covering my ears as to not hear them. But it wasn't enough.

I screamed out in order to muffle them out. I kept on yelling until I couldn't hear them anymore. I kept screaming, holding my ears tightly, and looking down as to not see them.

Then I felt something. A hand upon my shoulder.

My body twitched with fear, and I roared out, slapping away what was above me. Fearing the birds where there to get me. However, when I opened my eyes, all I saw was a lady around my age standing there.

"Are you alright?" she asked.

"I heard you screaming. Are you injured?" she continued to ask.

"T-The birds..." I muttered.

"What birds?" the lady asked.

I looked around and saw that the birds had vanished.

"They... They where here. Everywhere. I-I saw them." I said.

"Do you want me to call someone?" she asked.

I grabbed her arm.

"I SWEAR I SAW THEM!"

"They where right there. Chanting my name!" I exclaimed.

The lady pulled her arm back. She was now more frightened than worried.

"The birds... They where..." I say realizing how i sound.

Seeing the ladies face, I stood back up and took my distance from her.

"I-I'm sorry." I said.

I then continued my walk to my job.

When my family and friends heard of my out brake that morning, they started to get worried. My friends started to take distance from me, thinking that I had gone mental.

My parents suggested that I should talk to some therapist whilst my girlfriend said she wasn't comfortable with how I was starting to act. So we agreed to take some time away from each other.

They have ruined my life. These fucking birds...

They no longer just haunt my mornings, now they haunt my dreams as well. For the past month, I have had the same dream.

I sit alone in a cramped room, surrounded by birds. All of them screaming at me. But not their normal squawks. They scream like humans. It feels like eternity each night. yet still, I wake up just as tired as when I went to bed.

I lost my job.

The constant nightmares, paranoia, and my now fractured social life got to me. My work efficiency got worse, and my constant ramblings about the birds started to freak out the patrons of the bar. That and my small outbursts every time I saw anything birdlike caused my boss to fire me.

Now i have no friends, no family who respects me, no girlfriend, and now I don't even have a job all because of these FUCKING BIRDS!

I know they are real. I know that it's not just my mind fucking with me.

I'll prove it. I will catch one of them, and I will show them all. I will show them that i'm not lying.

I walked out to face them.

There, in the middle of the empty streets of my apartment complex, I stood.

"Come at me then!" I screamed.

"Do something. I'm all yours, you fucking birds!" I screamed.

Yet still, they where silent. Looking at me like I was nothing.

"I'll show you." I muttered as I picked up a small rock.

With all my might, I threw it at them.

It missed. Just an inch from hitting it.

The thousands of birds now surrounding me all looked towards the rock i threw.

Then their gazes slowly turned back towards me.

A fear like nothing I had ever felt before crept up my spine.

"P-p... please." is all I could say before they started.

The quiet morning flooded with the sounds of thousands of birds crying out as they surrounded me. Swarming me. Clawing and biting me.

I felt them grab my clothes, and soon enough, I couldn't feel the ground beneath me.

I screamed and cried fighting back. But I couldn't do anything. I was lifted into the sky. Dragged away by them. The last thing I heard was the sound of their screaming and how it deformed and twisted like it had done once before.

All that I could hear from the ball of feathers and claws surrounding me. Was the birds screaming my name and the faint whistle of a song.