Mouse Your House: Yuletide Edition
_Tick, tick, tick...
Beaver Fever
"Welp! Another show in the books!" Mandy said. The palomino mare leaned toward her microphone. "What a week, huh?" "I think this was one of our better ones," a grey squirrel insisted, sitting a few feet away. "Weeks or shows?" "Why not both?" "You...
Golden Guarantee
**3:50 AM** Meadow woke up. To buzzing. And music. **Bzzz!** 'The _sun_ is _shining_ in the _sky_! There _ain't_ a _cloud_ in _sight_!' **Bzzz!** 'It's stopped _rain_ing, _every_body's in the play! And don't you _know_, it's a _beaut_iful new...
Party Animals
Ketchy shuffled back to the bedroom, eyes half-open. 7:04. In the _morning._ The bronze and silver-speckled fox squirrel sighed, flopping face-first onto her side of the bed. The alarm on her phone was set for 7:45. Gave her an hour to eat and...
Talk of the Town
Emerson, in bed, in the dark, rolled from one side to another, suddenly awake. The harvest mouse sighed. _It's my turn, isn't it?_ He was a light sleeper to begin with. Unlike Charlie, his mate. (The fox squirrel could sleep through almost...
Pink Noise
Brizz scooped an oversized helping of crispy, seasoned crickets into his muzzle, crunching on them loudly. "Mmf. Mmh! Wan' some?" the pale white-and-pink bat asked, his Australian accent quite strong. He nudged the bowl across the table. "Um ... no,...
The More the Merrier
"You did _what_?" Akira repeated, following Charlie through the grocery aisle. They were the only two in the place, which Akira owned. "Yup! Ten out o' ten," the fox squirrel insisted. "Except it was hard to sleep after. I was so jazzed, and three...
Pleasure Before Business
**Ree-ree-ree!** A phone trilled. **Ree-ree-ree!** The secretary, a fancy rat (an 'American blue') with a calm, professional demeanor, picked it up. "Yes. Yes, he's still here." Ears cocking, Matt looked up from his chrome-colored laptop, making...
Twice as Mice
It was an October day, cloudy and grey. Blustery with a strong chance of rain by nightfall. Boldly colored leaves, orange, red, and russet, swirled up and down Main Street in the little town of Arcadia. Inside the big front window of the grocery...
Surrender My Heart
"Astrid!" &nb...
In With a Bang
It was New Year's Eve, late-afternoon, and the sun was steadily sinking toward the horizon. As she got out of her car, garage door still open, Meadow squeaked. The snow and wind whipped at her face, reaching inside to stab at her. _There's no...
Best in Show
"Hey, there, big buck! Saayyyyy ... you look like a baller." Kody's tall, black-tipped ears flicked. He stopped amidst the strobing lights and bountiful bags of colorful cotton candy. The hunky Himalayan rabbit blinked and looked to the carnival...