Issue 58: Summer 2022

mouse

We have a mouse with an eating disorder his favourite food is nutmeg dillweed toffee kettlecorn and baking soda.

 

We have a mouse with an eating disorder his favourite food is nutmeg dillweed toffee kettlecorn and baking soda. We caught him with the cocoa powder and the gelt so we know he has his period and he ate a marshmallow so we know he likes to camp. I’ve never known any tiny field creature as prone to stealing peppermint patties as coked up on coffee grounds as unfettered and unforlorn. Imagine the strength. Mouse warlord mouse fugitive mouse squatter he ate a protein bar for weightlifters and energy gellies for marathoners I think he is mouse athlete mouse olympian mouse teenager with big fat american dreams. He likes his pasta raw and his salt & vinegar chips from scotland he likes to spill the quinoa the almonds the pistachios he is fancy mouse he is just like I am just like me. I think I am in love with the mouse, I think he is my mother. We cannot evict him. We cannot put him to the cold. Look at the way he has my eyes look at the way he smothers himself in peanut butter and screams.

 

About the author

kari teicher writes fiction, poetry, and complains. mfa university of victoria & ba university of kings college. work in cv2, the malahat review, event, prism international, the puritan, room magazine, canthius and others. kari lives in toronto with no air conditioning. she is at work on her debut novel about snag, yukon.