One spring morning I was rummaging around in our garden shed when a mouse ran out from behind a sack of grass seed. A female, dragging her litter of young, each latched to one of her teats. When she stopped to rest, I knelt down to look more closely. The light wasn’t good, so I bent closer, then backed away on all fours, as if from an electric shock. I didn’t know what I had seen, but whatever it was, it hadn’t been a mouse, or even a mammal. It was glistening and alive and wriggling through a hole in the mouse’s side …
Bio:
Wayne Grady is the author of 15 books of nonfiction, including The Quiet Limit of the World, The Bone Museum, and Pandexicon. He has also published three novels; his debut novel, Emancipation Day, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. He received the Governor General’s Award for his translation of Antonine Maillet’s On the Eighth Day. He lives in Kingston, Ontario, and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with his wife, novelist and essayist Merilyn Simonds.