How does one write a mouse-washing scene? There aren’t a lot of examples in literature, and in any event I didn’t want my mouse-washing scene to be contaminated by the work of other fiction writers.
For Electric Literature, Jeff Vandermeer explains how he overcame the age-old challenge of describing a character washing a mouse.
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