Short Story: Three Blind Mice

‘the mountains went into labour and gave birth to a mouse.’

Driving to my mother’s house, my nine-year-old boy was indignant. He sat at the front with his knees up, listening attentively to Radio 4. Being the son of a news man, he was already developing that habit of listening to ‘The World at One’. The international community, namely America, Britain and France, had launched air strikes overnight hitting three Syrian targets. It was done to signal their disapproval of the use of chemical weapons in Douma, Syria.