“When I was a kid, I saw a bearded woman at the circus put mice in her mouth. She held them there awhile, with the tails moving between her closed lips, while she walked before the audience smiling and rolling her eyes back in her head, as if it gave her great pleasure.”Read “Birds in the Mouth” at Recommended Reading, your weekly dose of free fiction. 

“When I was a kid, I saw a bearded woman at the circus put mice in her mouth. She held them there awhile, with the tails moving between her closed lips, while she walked before the audience smiling and rolling her eyes back in her head, as if it gave her great pleasure.”

Read “Birds in the Mouth” at Recommended Reading, your weekly dose of free fiction.