Dead End, by Corey Brown

Cartoon of a mouse driving a skeletal, mousetrap-like race car with rainbow wheels and puffs of exhaust, a large face looming in the background

Originally published in Planet Magazine No. 24 (December 1999). Illustration: “Mouse Trap!” by Romeo Esparrago Sheriff Cyrus Johnson was suffering from a touch of indigestion the day the revolution arrived in Hammacksville. It whistled in on the one o'clock train, wearing a crisp black suit, top hat and silk checkered tie with a diamond pin … Continue reading Dead End, by Corey Brown →