"But Is it a Novel?"

A person stands and looks out a high window at the snowy street below. There are footprints in the snow. Have we achieved the status of fiction yet? A person is conflicted. This conflict will probably have to do with morality, mortality or a combination of those two things.

I didn't say the person in the first sentence is the same person in the fourth sentence.

This is getting greatly complicated, so it might be a novel.

Sparrows fly between the two people in the sentences above, who may or may not be the same person.

This way the natural world makes its commentary on human preoccupations.

The sparrows do not like fiction. They prefer poetry.

Sparrows usually do.