Will McMahon is a labor organizer and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. While his greatest work is in the genre of incendiary union flyers, his fiction can be found in Lightspeed, Interzone Digital, and others available at will-mcmahon.com. This is his first appearance in F&SF. Will once heard someone say the first line of this story, and the rest came inevitably. He promises it isn’t a metaphor for anything. When I die, I want to be a cormorant. A lot of people choose eagles. Dolphins are a common pick. There’s a lot more monkeys than there used to be, and