2nd Most Successful Mammal

Jimmy had the blues. He felt as though he had settled to the bottom of life's handbag and been forgotten. He read somewhere that mice are the second most successful mammals living today, after humans. Great. That was like saying that werewolves are the second most successful mythical creatures after vampires. Beautiful young girls pack the cinema to see movies about vampires. But no editor was clamoring for a steamy chick-lit series about werewolves. He felt like his success as a mammal must come in somewhere below the Lesser Stick Nest rat, which had passed into extinction in Australia in 1933.

But instead of running away to join a kibbutz, or some crazy caravan retracing the old Silk Road routes, he decided to nut up and feel good about himself. So he grabbed his flashlight and climbed up to peer into the corners of his attic looking for hope. Granted, it was hard to see anything up there, what with all the baggage and back issues he had stashed. But there must be something. It turned out there was. Wrapped in a handkerchief, he found a blue ribbon from his state solo and ensemble high school band competition. He and three other guys had placed first with their saxophone quartet. Ha! Not second... first.

While this search was a bit like picking apples in an orange grove, Jimmy pinned the ribbon to his shirt with pride. Eat that, humans and vampires!

Seed words: mice, vampire, caravan, handkerchief, handbag, apple, editor, nut, flashlight, cinema

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