Hammer

Home from work, Sonya took her ice tea out to the lanai and saw the birdfeeder in a scatter of seed. Squat over it was a fat squirrel stuffing its jaws. Eber must have left the feeder there in sight of the animals and one had found its way through the screen. Sonya chased it around the lanai for ten minutes before it tired itself out and crouched behind a potted fern. With no hesitation, she swung a hammer down hard onto the ugly rodent’s skull.