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|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield]]  
|name= Dead Mice
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|main character= [[Bernice Summerfield]]  
|writer = Joseph Lidster
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|anthology= Something Changed (anthology)
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|release date= 3 January 2006
|writer= [[Joseph Lidster]]
|series = ''[[Bernice Summerfield (series)|Bernice Summerfield]]'' short stories
|publication= ''[[Something Changed]]''  
|prev = Siege Mentality (short story)  
|prev= Siege Mentality (short story)  
|next = Acts of Senseless Devotion (short story)
|next= Acts of Senseless Devotion (short story)
}}'''''Dead Mice''''' was the third story in the [[Bernice Summerfield]] anthology ''[[Something Changed (anthology)|Something Changed]]''. It was written by [[Joseph Lidster]].
}}'''''Dead Mice''''' was the third story in the [[Bernice Summerfield]] anthology ''[[Something Changed]]''. It was written by [[Joseph Lidster]].
 
== Summary ==
== Summary ==
[[Braxiatel]] is experiencing many of the [[alternate timeline]]s created by the [[history machine]] all at once. He attempts to visualize the correct version of reality, but soon discovers that he is in the wrong one when he finds that [[Wolsey]] is still alive. Braxiatel follows the [[cat]] to kill it in order to set history straight, but Wolsey begins to speak to him, and [[Doggles]] catches the two of them talking. The cat provokes Braxiatel into killing Doggles by reminding him that [[Benny]] is Doggles' lover in another history.
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The next day, [[Bev Tarrant]] is discovered deceased in the fountain that Braxiatel killed Doggles in. [[Adrian Wall]] confesses to killing her after catching her with another lover, though he soon develops a debilitating [[migraine]] and falls into a [[coma]]. However, [[Jason]] remembers some of the migraines that he’s recently suffered from and he visits Braxiatel out of suspicion. The migraines are presumably due to Braxiatel [[hypnosis|hypnotizing]] the members of the [[Braxiatel Collection]].
 
As they talk, the severely injured Doggles enters the room and accuses Braxiatel of trying to kill him. Braxiatel beats Jason with the [[Purpura Pawn]] that was sitting nearby before Jason can reveal the truth about Braxiatel's manipulations. Throughout this whole episode Wolsey has been watching and he threatens to tell Bernice. Braxiatel chases the cat to the Summerfield household and crushes its skull, telling Benny that this it is for everyone’s own good. Before he dies, Wolsey reveals even after history returns to normal, some part of Benny will still remember the truth about Braxiatel.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
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* [[Jason Kane]]
* [[Jason Kane]]
* [[Wolsey]]
* [[Wolsey]]
* [[Doctor Wt'hlm]]
* Doctor [[Wt'hlm]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* [[Jess Carter]] commits suicide in this alternate timeline.
* [[Jess Carter]] commits suicide in this alternate timeline.
* [[Braxiatel]] beats [[Jason Kane|Jason]] to death with the [[Purpura Pawn]].
* [[Braxiatel]] beats [[Jason Kane|Jason]] to death with the [[Purpura Pawn]].
* [[Parasiel]] is briefly mentioned being bored.
* [[Parasiel]] is briefly mentioned being bored.
* For reasons unknown, [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]] is the only one besides Braxiatel who knows that [[Wolsey]] is supposed to be dead.
* [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]] is the only one besides Braxiatel who knows that [[Wolsey]] is supposed to be dead.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* Like most of the other stories in this anthology, this story takes place in an altered timeline created by Doggles' [[history machine]]; these timelines are (mostly) erased when [[Braxiatel]] returns things to normal.
* Like most of the other stories in this anthology, this story takes place in an altered timeline created by Doggles' [[history machine]]; these timelines are (mostly) erased when [[Braxiatel]] returns things to normal.
* This is the only other story besides ''[[Oh No It Isn't! (novel)|Oh No It Isn't!]]'' in which Wolsey speaks, although this takes place in an [[alternate timeline]] and the [[cat]]'s speech is likely [[Braxiatel]]'s hallucination.
* This is the only other story besides ''[[Oh No It Isn't! (novel)|Oh No It Isn't!]]'' in which Wolsey speaks, although this takes place in an [[alternate timeline]] and the [[cat]]'s speech is likely [[Braxiatel]]'s hallucination.
* This story marks the first appearance of [[Doctor Wt'hlm]].
* This story marks the first appearance of Doctor [[Wt'hlm]].


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
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* The migraines suffered by Jason and Adrian in this story are similar to the migraines caused by Braxiatel's hypnosis in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect (audio story)|The Mirror Effect]]''.


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[[Category:Irving Braxiatel short stories]]
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[[Category:2006 short stories]]
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[[Category:Bernice Summerfield short stories]]

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Dead Mice was the third story in the Bernice Summerfield anthology Something Changed. It was written by Joseph Lidster.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Like most of the other stories in this anthology, this story takes place in an altered timeline created by Doggles' history machine; these timelines are (mostly) erased when Braxiatel returns things to normal.
  • This is the only other story besides Oh No It Isn't! in which Wolsey speaks, although this takes place in an alternate timeline and the cat's speech is likely Braxiatel's hallucination.
  • This story marks the first appearance of Doctor Wt'hlm.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The migraines suffered by Jason and Adrian in this story are similar to the migraines caused by Braxiatel's hypnosis in AUDIO: The Mirror Effect.
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