Natural Causes

An owl swoops out of the branches above and snatches a field mouse. As its claws grasp around the mouse's body, the poor creature cries out one last time. Air escapes its lungs, never to be replenished.

Then bones crunch. Its death is swift.

"We've denied your claim," says the woman on the other end of the phone. _Crunch._

I was never long for this world, anyway.