The Once Shredded Rainbow

…before then, all birds were white.
They didn't mind.
They were happy, though sometimes there were little problems-when it snowed, you can imagine, for instance.
Life could generally go on, however, with few serious collisions, as only some places had snow.
But change was coming. Change in its common guise, unnoticed.
Stealthily.
Until parrot…
And thirty-eight other stories…Australia; England; France; Ireland; Holland; India; Africa; America…in the past; far into the future; '…sometimes heart-warming, sometimes heart-breaking, sometimes soul-stirring, sometimes soul-searching…from the immediately recognisable to the most unlikely and obscure, dipping into life's truths and fantasies along the way.'