MindSpinner

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.” - Ernest Hemingway

The mouse was cold and stiff the morning of October 25, its head resting next to the wheat berries. I bought steel wool to close the two holes through which another mouse might follow, the one hole behind the stove and the other in the cabinet above the microwave.