弗农街的小巷口,一只灰猫正蹲坐在那里,静待一只钻进棚户墙缝中的肥硕老鼠重新现身。之前,它已经寻遍了大大小小的缝隙,这不禁让它纳闷老鼠是如何把那肥硕的身体挤进如此窄小的缝隙中的。7月的午夜,四周已是漆黑如墨,灰猫在苦等了半个小时后终于悻悻离开。灰猫渐行渐远,一串爪印在一摊早已干涸的血迹上隐约可见。那血迹是7个月前一个女孩自杀时留下的。顷刻间,小巷归于寂静。突然,男人缓慢的脚步声传来,他沿着弗农街走来, On the sidewalk of Vernon Street, a gray cat is sitting there, waiting for a stout mouse to re-emerge from the wall sill. Before, it had searched through gaps of all sizes, which wondered how the mouse squeezed the plump body into such a narrow gap. Midnight in July, surrounded by dark as ink, gray cat finally waited for half an hour to leave. Gray cat lopsided, a string of claws printed in a stall of dried blood on the vaguely visible. The blood left behind by a girl seven months ago committed suicide. Suddenly, alleys at silence. Suddenly, a man’s slow footsteps came and he walked along Vernon Street,