Of mice and men – John Steinbeck
Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation,
George and his simple-minded friend Lennie dream,
as drifters will,
of a place to call their own.
But after they come to work on a ranch in the Salinas Valley their hopes,
like “the best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men,” begin to go awry.
Fict.it.ious 
