
The Star Mouse by Fredric Brown - Fredric Brown Short Stories
The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories
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Minnie, a Mouse of Ours
The professor was too excited to sleep the following day. He compromised by doing a spot of housekeeping, cleaning the pots and pans. It was while he was so engaged that he heard a series of frantic little squeaks. Another small gray mouse, with shorter whiskers and a shorter tail than Mickey, had walked into the wire cage mouse trap. Minnie came to fill the place of her far-traveling spouse as repository for the professor's confidences. Whether she worried about her family or not, there is no way of knowing, but she need not have done so.
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