How many of them can we make die?

There's nothing like having a guest find fresh mouse crap in the kitchen drawers during a party to flip from "I don't hate the little mice, I just want them to leave me alone" to "KILL THEM ALL WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE NOW, NOW, NOW!!!"

This is making me put "look at all the stuff in the drawers and decide what goes" on the top of my list, because if I'm going to be washing something every damn day and moving it around the kitchen to keep it safe, I want to be damnsure it's worth the effort. Three corkscrews? Not. Tongs? Maybe. PC chef's knives? Safe in their plastic holders and therefore not tainted, whew.

The one place the pest control guy found no trace of mice? The pantry itself. I'm thinking that's because we have the door to it open all the time, and the cats are always meandering in.

Default Icon Drabble Challenge - A Woman's Job

Swiped from jackxianto: Write a drabble (100 words exactly) based on your current default icon. No changing it! Any fandom or no fandom at all.


A WOMAN'S JOB

Once I watched him agonize over whether he should change history. I told him to do it, to kill the monsters. He couldn’t.

Today I watched a monster offer him godhood… and he wanted it.

And she said nothing. Not one word from Rose. Did she think that he, that anyone, could wield such absolute power and not be absolutely corrupted? He’s given her a key, but not job training. Because it is up to us to argue, to make him think twice.

They’ve gone, and I’m terrified of what will happen the next time she doesn’t tell him “You’re wrong.”


x-posted to dwfiction

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My review for Movies For Your Mind (a Twilight Zone style audiobook) is up on Reviewing the Evidence.