Clever Title - Third Place, Wallace Prize for Fiction
For Herblin. Thanks for all the help, old dog.
(And for Cindy...)
THE MOUSE IS feisty today,” y’all will have said. The sun will have shone [adverb beginning with s] on the soapy skin of y’all’s faces. Y’all will have opened the cage and reached y’all’s hands in, having arranged the mesmerizing, [m adj.] maze. “That’s a good mouse,” y’all will have said, ogling behind y’all’s laboratory goggles. Then
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IT TOOK ME a full hour to write that. Donna made me start with, “The mouse is feisty today.” She exhorted me to be “crazy outlandish” with the point of...
