“Mice? Seriously?” asks Carla, dropping the ruined bag in a tuppercube.<\/p>\n
“Unless you’ve been stabbing the flour to keep the sugar in line,” says her mother on the phone. “Get a humane thingy.”<\/p>\n
I’ve got better ideas, Carla thinks, and returns to the spill. It actually looks like a pattern, maybe letters scratched into it. Gluten… Raus?<\/i> She shakes her head and wipes it away.<\/p>\n
That night she waits in silence, lights out, until she hears the rattling start. She yanks the cupboard open with ninja speed.<\/p>\n
The raisins look up from their dice, shocked, smoke trailing from their tiny cigarettes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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