Friday, August 23, 2019

"The Mouse and the Maze"


For the science fair, when I was a boy, I did the mouse-trying-to-make-it-through-the-maze-to-find-a-piece-of-cheese experiment. But my mouse never could make it through the maze and I got last place; he couldn't find the cheese. I yelled at him, scolded him, and cursed his name. Then I went home and left him in the maze where he belonged.

The next morning, I woke up and the mouse had hanged himself to death at the end of the maze. He stood on the piece of cheese, using the string from the last place award around his neck, kicked away the cheese and hung there, dead.

That, and I came in last.

Thursday, August 22, 2019