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Feral Gifts
Why pay for mice from a store when they are everywhere, waiting to be had, looking to sit in small boxes with bows, wanting to please, ready to step up to polite company?
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Written in response to a Trifextra Writing Challenge: 33 words in response to this prompt: Charles Dickens, in A Christmas Carol, wrote, “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
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Shopping for cats, huh?
This is some real truth:)
I am not going to tell my mice-impersonates-gerbil story again.
They do look sweet all lined up like that, though.
I’m sitting here at my desk, open this up and actually, truly laugh out loud. So funny.
: )
I just imagining little mice squirming as somebody ties a bow around their heads. This was fun!
a little mice
is far from nice
even in bow
the things that grow
in its dirty fur
only kitty pur
Ha! It was a truly inspiring piece, don’t you think? Look what it brought forth.
That’s a great one!
Make mine chocolate, please.
Clever take on the prompt!
best,
MOV
Ew, I wouldn’t want one of those… and I wouldn’t pay for one from a store, either 🙂
Me neither, but Draug might appreciate one for Severus 😉
Ha! Good idea! A little Christmas cheer.
Even with a cute bow?