You can buy pinkies in bulk online: little baby mice and rats, naked as eyes, pink as palms, nicely dead and vacuum-sealed. I kept them boxed in my freezer, and when it was time to feed, I put one in the fridge to thaw. After that I warmed it in water, ready to eat.

I mean, they don’t ask you if you have a snake before they sell you feeder mice. 

One of these days I was going to go to the hunter and beg him to cure me. They said it can be done, but what it involved . . . he’d drown you in r...