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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 33: August 2026
Haibun: 91 words
By Bob Lucky

The exterminator

 

came to check our high-tech rodent traps. We haven’t caught a mouse in a year, but we like this guy and his affection for the things he’s hired to kill. He shows us photos on his phone of rats the size of over-fed chihuahuas, as well as his daughter’s piano recitals and clips of Big Bang Theory he thinks will improve his English. He likes us too because our traps are always empty and we pay on time.

dead of night 
the beep of the dying 
smoke alarm battery 

 

Bio: Bob Lucky

 
 
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