Classmates had tormented him for his curiosity of squashed pigeons or ant-riddled mushy mice baking on the pavement. It wasn’t so much the fascination for wrecked flesh and bone – all the kids had that …

Oct 30, 2016 · Then I see them properly for the first time; they are mice. Standing on their back legs in ballgowns and suits, dancing in joy to a strange music that has no source, it seems to come from the …

Jul 8, 2023 · Whenever I had shrieked and scrambled onto the table to get away from dying mice, dad wasn’t home. Maybe if he’d been there he would’ve laughed and talked me through my fear of death …

Feb 23, 2024 · I stuffed the tabby under my shirt, planning on sneaking it home—no matter that I’d always been caught, scolded, and forced to return previously smuggled mice, hamsters, and gerbils.

Jul 7, 2021 · Not that anyone gardened. Gert’s back yard was a mess of weeds and brambles and the leftover bomb shelter had too many mice to be a clubhouse of the sort in children’s books. Behind …

Aug 29, 2020 · The cats stayed where they were princes, on their porches playing with mice and flies. But foxes, stoats, ferrets, and big fucking rats too, they would have the chick in a pounce.

Nov 5, 2022 · Mice fathers, for example, will eat their young. Hens will eat their own eggs. Mother bears will kill – and then eat – their weakest cub. 12 But it’s a two-way street: desert spider babies will …

Sep 6, 2019 · “Leeches only feed on live mammals,” she said. In their exhibit, they fed them mice. I don’t think I could stomach that either. The museum people told us that we would have to put them in the …

Mar 14, 2023 · I very determinedly set out to Paris where I lived three heady years au pairing in the pre-trendy 11 th arrondisement, in a cul de sac of horny creatives, a magical book-filled apartment where …

Jul 22, 2015 · We interview french editor Jean-Luc Maxence discussing gender, Jung, Simone de Beauvoir, and why he feels we can celebrate the differences between the sexes, but not entirely …