The Story of Corey the Vole

The Story of Corey the Vole: PART ONE

by Josh (fourtccnwrites)

One strange morning, Corey the Vole got a letter from his friend Chuck, who also happened to be a vole.

Chuck's letter was surprising, to say the least. In it, he described being captured by a giant, hairless vole who fed him various veggies and gave him a nice wheel to run around on for all hours of the day. Said vole, he claimed, was named Cait.

To Corey, the concept was strange but intriguing. He had never heard of such a thing. To him, large hairless voles only caused pain and destruction, as they had run him out of his home more than once. But Chuck's experience seemed to be the opposite—Cait had not shunned Chuck but instead welcomed him into her home and created a space for him.

Chuck ended his letter with a particular message: "Perhaps these voles are not all as they seem."

Corey pictured Chuck lounging in a beach chair, being fed tubulars by a large, hairless vole hand, and he, for the first time, experienced an emotion he had never thought he was capable of experiencing—jealousy.

_Maybe they are different from what I thought them to be,_ he thought to himself. Corey decided right there and then that he was determined to find out for himself.

Packing a few berries in a tiny vole-sized backpack, Corey set out on his adventure to find a kind large, hairless vole.