Rats

They came…they saw…they ruled — Long ago in a mobile home back in North Carolina, The Washington family (which consists of six members) had a really bad rat problem in the late 90s. Two coming-of-age daughters, two young sons, and their mom & dad lived in that home. This rat problem came out of nowhere…

The victim didn’t suffer too much — How the rat got into the kitchen I don’t really know. We’ve been leaving doors and windows open in the hot weather. We feed the birds quite near the house, and they are messy eaters. Plenty of seed and scrapings from the fat balls on the ground. There’s a canal…

If our little rat could talk, she could tell some tales! — I love my new home. I know I shouldn’t have chewed a hole in my cage and made a new home in this box with all the long shiny stuff inside. I love shiny stuff but this was all heavy. I think they said it was a “silverware drawer” or…

Wednesday Prose Poem: talk to yourself — Dissociation, he says. Does he know about the rats? Hush, no. That’s a secret. Especially when no one knows whether the gnawing, chirruping rats are actually inside your skull or outside. Hush. Lawns are now banned in Nevada, the rats gnaw on. That’s a new one. It marks a point…

and her name was Isabelle! — If you have read my stories about my roommate Lurch, you know that he was punched in the eye by a monkey, stuck a lit joint up his nose, was almost arrested with me and Danny, was arrested on his way home from the Dentist, and brought home a Hells…

I should be pleased. They’ll be the last creatures slithering around Earth. I could be getting a few claps to the bitter end — I headed out to my car with a list of errands, then remembered I needed to fill the empty container of windshield wiper fluid. I popped the hood and……Aargh! A rat’s nest was under construction! Donning gloves, I plotted rats demise while dismantling the nest. Discovering a few chewed wires…

Rodents in urban areas have been viewed as grimy animals that have been spreading infections since the plague, yet new examination shows that rodents and different creatures that live in urban areas are less inclined to cause the following pandemic. Specialists at Georgetown University in Washington DC have concentrated on…