The Animal Chronicals: R.I.P. THE RAT WITH THE BIG TESTICLES
… so we got another rat …the brown one from the psych lab i told you about …the one with the huge testacles … but i can’t remember what it’s name was …
We were eating ice cream bars inside the
screened in porch shortly after a
baseball sized clod of dirt had
exploded on my brother’s
forehead …
… roughly between his eyes …
during a dirt fight in the
field in back of our
house …
…..
since he cried so hard ..,.
AND
holding him down to
hose all that dirt from his
eyes
wasn’t a lot of
fun for him …
we let him sit in the
rocking chair
…..
after that, everything was
nice and
peaceful …
…..
the brown rat crept around
minding its own
business sniffling every object in
sight …
…..
we talked and
laughed …
my brother rocked
contentedly …
we savored our ice cream
bars … anxious for the
rotten apple
fight we decided we’d have …
when we heard a
high pitched
squeal … !
…..
my brother rocked over the
rat
killing it !
…..
while he cried we buried
the brown rat in the
field …
…..
then we had the
rotten apple fight
in the vacant lot next
to our
house …
…..
when my brother threw a
rotten apple at me i
stepped
aside …
…..
after passing through the open passenger side window of a car passing by
the impact of the apple against the curved windshield inside the car
produced an apple vinegar scented spray
of liquified apple chunks, skin, and seeds that clung not only to the father but
his four year old daughter sitting on the passenger side seat of the car ..
…..
this wasn’t my brother’s day …
…..
a dirt clod exploded on his
forehead …
he killed his pet rat
and
covered a father and his daughter with the
chunks and soured juice of a
rotten apple
which he had accidentally thrown through the open passenger side window of a car passing by …
Kurt Struble Writing 