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Mouse and Man

February 9, 2021 7 Comments

By Mae Bell

A mouse! Sound the alarms. Her fiancé readies the mouse trap and cheese. Next day, the cheese is gone, and the mouse is still running free. She asks someone who knows and is told that peanut butter bait will catch a mouse. She tells her fiancé this information. But he shakes his head and replaces the cheese. This is what you use.

She thinks of their future. It will definitely have more mice-like trials and traps. His opinions will not be changed by good advice. She knows this now. Sound the alarms.

She alone understands why a mouse stopped the wedding.

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  1. Fiona Halliday says

    February 9, 2021 at 7:39 am

    I like this very much! Very chilling as the reader thinks about the woman’s plight.

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  2. Derek says

    February 9, 2021 at 9:55 am

    Mice can actually choke to death or suffocate on peanut butter because of the consistency and stickiness. I think the fiance got the idea of cheese from cartoons. And so the wedding was off; still, there are plenty more mice in the field.

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  3. Meghashri Dalvi says

    February 9, 2021 at 9:19 pm

    Wow!

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  4. Annabelle Ulaka says

    February 10, 2021 at 7:51 am

    This is very funny. The husband is as stubborn as the mice.

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  5. I.R.Pathak says

    February 10, 2021 at 8:43 am

    Deep thought with meaningful intake. Commendable.

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  6. Lydia Quattrochi says

    February 10, 2021 at 8:46 am

    Feel bad for the woman.

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  7. Mae Bell says

    February 10, 2021 at 7:12 pm

    Thank you everyone for your comments.

    Reply

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