A political allegory by the author of 'Depravity', 'The dream', 'The machine' and 'Meltdown'. 'Phil 81' is a short story about a community of pheasants that struggles to cope with the poor decision-making of their leaders. Phil 81, one of the pheasants and the main character through whose eyes the story is told, is increasingly ill-at-ease with his fellow pheasants and their misguided priorities, especially about the decision of their group to cut...