La Souciere / The Mousetrap - ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
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La Souciere / The Mousetrap - ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
mOthertongue Volume 18 Spring Article 7 2012 La Souciere / The Mousetrap Chris Kerrigan University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/mot Part of the Fiction Commons, Illustration Commons, Photography Commons, and the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Kerrigan, Chris (2012) "La Souciere / The Mousetrap," mOthertongue: Vol. 18, Article 7. Available at: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/mot/vol18/iss1/7 This Multilingual Prose is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in mOthertongue by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. La Souriciere Jetais dans la dans la cuisine, et le monde etait Mon cousin a dit, « 'Stophe! Viens me voir! Tout le monde dans » et vu mon chat avec une souris done ils entendu ma mere. rire je suis alle. quand je ont allume les suis entre dans la sa- bougies quetaient sur Ma famille sait que je l'adore. Mon pere a dit, gateau. « Felicitations! Je suis tres ne le salon. J'ai applaudissait lon, lis ont dit, « Bravo! », et ire. Je ai bouche. Tout un j le heureux pour toi. » J ai cherche un sour- trouvais pas. Ma famille etait heureuse pour moi parce qui j'ai publie ma premiere histoire dans un magasine. Un magasine qui s'appelle le New Yorker. La histoire pere, mes freres, etait sur mes ma famille, et que tous, ma mere, mon cousins, tous sont auteurs, et que nous don- nons une grande fete quand quelqu'un publie leur premiere hisLa histoire a dit, « Si cette histoire est publie, ma famille va donner une fete pour moi. Je ne la veux pas. Si cette histoire est toire. publiee, je vais entrer dans un monde dbu Ton ne peut pas II riy a pas dauteur que complete. Si j'entre dans sortir. » le dit, « Je suis alle. Mon oeuvre est monde de la litterature, je vais pour toujours. » Mais j'ai dit que je n'ai pas de choix. J'ai litterature comme une souris vient a un chat. » etre son esclave Je crois pes, 12 que nbnt jamais lu ma famille, les mon histoire. auteurs dit, « Je actifs, les viens a la auteurs occu- The Mousetrap was I and saw in the kitchen, my cat with a mouse in her mouth. Everyone was else in the living My cousin yelled, laughter. cake. lit I Come the candles of a cake. My father said, searched for a smile. heard I my mother s and so I did. entered the room. "Bravo!" "'Stophe! Everyone applauded when they said, and room. in here!" My family knows that love I "Congratulations! I'm so happy for you." I could not find I it. My family was happy for me because I had just published my first story in a magazine. A magazine called The New Yorker. The story was about my family, about how all of them, my mother, my father, my brothers, my cousins, all of them are authors, and about how they throw huge party whenever one of us a published. The story had a passage: "If this story family will throw lished, I no author plete.' If I in the world from which there world who says, 'I I wrote that literature as a I I shall be did not have a choice. mouse comes think that perhaps If this no is is first published, story my is pub- escape. There is am finished. My works are com- enter the world of literature, But I me a party. I do not want that. will enter a is its I slave forever." wrote, "I come to to a cat." my family, those active authors, my story. those busy authors, never did read 13
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