Again, you have lots of article possibilities: interviews with exterminators, how to prevent rodents infesting your house or apartment, interviews at the pet store with people buying rats for pets, and so on. Or you could write a humorous short story with a persecuted rat as the narrator. There have already been novels and films about rats, so you’d have to find a new way of approaching that topic—we’ll look at ways to do that a little later in this chapter. One more example: the slumlord. What’s it really like living in a slum—are the horrors exaggerated? Why don’t.
