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The Girl Who Made a Mouse From Her Grandfather’s Whiskers

A Novella

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Pub Date Mar 17 2026 | Archive Date Mar 15 2026


Description

In a distant future, a little girl named Anny makes toy mice out of scraps and dust. Anny has never seen a real mouse, just as she’s never seen the planet her family came from many generations ago. All she knows is her home, Tsedt: an isolated village of human colonists’ descendants and their friendly helper robots.

But then one day the Amau arrive in Tsedt: plastic people with luminous eyes, intent on taking young humans to the distant city of Harbor to be educated. It’s not long before Anny is flown away to a place unlike any she’s seen before.

In a distant future, a little girl named Anny makes toy mice out of scraps and dust. Anny has never seen a real mouse, just as she’s never seen the planet her family came from many generations ago...


Advance Praise

"A small, strange, beautiful thing inhabiting a liminal space between sci-fi and parable."—Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7

"With simple language and seamless worldbuilding, Kenneth Hunter Gordon weaves a daunting tale of human survival.”—Carole Stivers, author of The Mother Code

"Like all the best fairy tales, [The Girl Who Made a Mouse From Her Grandfather’s Whiskers] is darkly subversive and sneakily wise."—Julianne Pachico, author of Jungle House

“Kenneth Hunter Gordon weaves a science fiction fantasy fable into a heartfelt tale that would please the Brothers Grimm.”—Johnny Worthen, best-selling author of The Unseen trilogy, Things Bequeathed and the Coronam Trilogy

“Gordon has constructed a narrative that is by turns warm, frightening, and magical.”—Jessica Lévai, author of The Glass Garden

"A small, strange, beautiful thing inhabiting a liminal space between sci-fi and parable."—Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7

"With simple language and seamless worldbuilding, Kenneth Hunter Gordon...


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781941360958
PRICE $17.00 (USD)
PAGES 160

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