The Rat and the Snake

A. E. van Vogt

Language: English

Published: Jan 1, 1971

Description:

A sadistic man named Mark Gray's main pleasure in life was feeding live rats to his python. A war breaks out, which makes getting rats from pet store's difficult to impossible. So he had to start attempting to catch them himself to feed his python. Because he wasn't very good at the project, his python was getting very hungry. He accidentally ran across a laboratory with a large number of white rats in cages, and goes inside to request that he get some. After being denied his request, the individual in charge told him not to come back and steel any, or he would be sorry. Until that time he had never considered stealing any thing in his life. But desperate times require desperate action, so he goes that night to the laboratory, and steals some white rats. Later he get a telephone call warning him that their would be consequences of his theft. That night he gets a taste of his own medicine. 1,091 Words Short Story