Have all the legends already been made?

Kristen Tsetsi
4 min readAug 14, 2021
Burt Lancaster in the 1962 film “Birdman of Alcatraz.” United Artists Production.

On an old episode of MSNBC’s “Lockup,” there’s a prisoner at San Quentin the staff call “the bird man.” That’s what the bird man, named Mike Miller, says they call him, anyway. Ever since he arrived at San Quentin, he says in the episode, he’s been a bird magnet. They perch on his shoulders, sit in his hands, and stand nearby when he’s out in the yard. And not just pigeons, either, but all kinds of birds — finches, red…

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Kristen Tsetsi

Author of the post-Roe v. Wade novel THE AGE OF THE CHILD. “A voice & perspective we rarely see in literature. Total page-turner." - Amazon Review