Picture prompt – mouse!

Today’s writing prompt and my response.

Day four of this week’s challenge! The tale begins here.
Picture prompt – mouse – see below

Miriam couldn’t sleep. The warm, sticky August night suggested a pending storm. She shoved her pillow this way and that, pushed off her cotton blanket, wriggled into a cooler space in the hot bed. For the first time, she was grateful she no longer shared her bed. A little grateful anyway. Thoughts of her sweet husband, dead these five years, made her even ...