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Start your story with a character being led somewhere by a stray cat.

Posted in Adventure on Feb 24, 2023

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Fern

Submitted to Contest #187

Opening the door I made my way carefully down my front pathway towards the mailbox.Something that used to come easily for me now felt as terrifying as balancing step by step on a plank.I paused, closed my eyes and felt for my sensor alert pendant on a lancet around my neck. A new accessory since coming home from hospital a week ago. I opened my eyes took a deep breath and continued.On my return from hospital I had reduced my daily walk to the mailbox and back but I was determined to try starting up my old long walks to the local park, cafe o...

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Satan's Tongue

Submitted to Contest #187

Sunlight dappled the fallen leaves of the ground as Astrid Blackwood skipped through the well-worn pathway. She took a moment to breeze in the fresh spring breeze as she made her way into the Tumbledown village square. Her basket was thumping against her chest and her hair loose in her back. She hopped into the market square, heading for the direction of the bakery. She needed to buy some bread for her and her family’s supper. Her eyes glanced past the bakery and saw a black cat, prowling around the edges of the alleyway. That cat was the vi...

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A mess at the edge of the universe

Shortlisted for Contest #187 ⭐️

The morality of a truly all-powerful and omnipotent God has been an object of significant debate between religious scholars and academic philosophers. Those on the side of the almighty, particularly those of the Judeo-Christian variety, contend that an all-powerful-all-seeing god is, by definition, a moral being because his actions work to further an ethereal, eternal plan that only God knows. Their logic further argues that God, maker of all things heaven, earth, in-between, and beyond, is the standard-bearer for morality purely because he ...

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The Magnificent Maron Maloney - Part 3/4

Submitted to Contest #187

Following the Cat. Questions. The Remedy. Benzie. It was an hour past midnight, and a slow-stalking tiger ascended a staircase found above the Swindle’s kitchen. Upon reaching a door left ajar at the top of the stairwell, the tiger gently shoved it open with her head, and it listed wide enough for her to enter. Taika Maru arrived at the foot of Elina Hogsbreath’s green-painted bed. A ward of three conjoined circles was carved into the footboard, and a matching wood dresser was similarly green and decorated with painted rose blossoms, branche...

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Small act of kindness

Submitted to Contest #187

 I was walking home from school one day when I noticed a small, black cat slinking along the street. It wasn’t the first cat I’d seen, as cats were quite common in the neighborhood, but this one stood out. Its movements weren’t erratic; it moved with a purpose, its eyes darting from side to side, seeming to take in its surroundings. Curious, I watched it for a bit, intrigued by its behavior, and that’s when I noticed the particular way it was looking at me. It wasn’t with indifference or fear, as other cats often do, but with an inte...

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Another One Bites The Catnip

Submitted to Contest #187

It was a dark night and a ginger haired man was on his way home from working so late.. The streets were empty and he had a journey ahead of him. Seeing as he missed all the late buses and the trains were closed, he was left with no other option than to walk. He decided to take the backstreets home. It was eerily quiet tonight, the moon was hidden, not guiding anyones path tonight. With a sigh he walked into the dark passage not noticing the intense glowing blue eyes following his movement. As he descended deeper through the alley the more th...

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The Ninth Life

Submitted to Contest #187

The two black limousines pulled up outside the singular house. She had hired two, because that was the way it was done. That was the way it had always been done, and so she did it that way. She made the arrangements and she gave her instructions, so there was not a batting of one eyelid and no eyebrow arose as she made her dignified way out of the house and climbed into the second of the two cars.  She sat rigidly as the two dark cars awaited their cue. There was no movement from her as the cars joined the hearse in a procession to th...

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My mother, Gertrude

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Gertrude just can’t say no. So when the homeless man outside Joe’s Coffee Shop asked Gertrude for some cash for food, she found herself agreeing before even checking to see if she had cash on her. As luck would not have it, Gertie in fact didn't have any cash.  That’s how she ended up in front of the rusted ATM machine, across the street from Joe’s, behind the hookah lounge. The ATM was conveniently nestled between two dumpsters. Above Gertie the sun was hidden in the clouds, wind whipped her short blonde hair, as she struggled to ge...

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Trish's Halo

Submitted to Contest #187

Trish’s Halo.                                By Anne Packingham  Trisha was standing in front of her cottage when Andy arrived home from a night of clubbing. He was alone, as happened most of the time. His friends said he wasn’t aggressive enough with the ladies. He was Too laid back.      Andy was a nice-looking guy but had an excellent relati...

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The Wound

Submitted to Contest #187

His dirty fingernails made flakes of the raw skin surrounding the puss-filled crater above his ankle. Like a bitch in heat dragging her backside across the yard, he scratched the itch. His fingers became wet with a viscous mixture of blood and puss. He was sure that the antibiotics to cure his staph infection hadn't worked; the bowl-shaped depression was becoming larger, and the swelling of his chaffed skin around the wound would soon burst like a volcanic fissure and consume more of his leg. Don't lose sight of the long game by reveling in ...

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The Black Cat

Submitted to Contest #187

As usual, I had a fight with my boyfriend. They seemed to be happening more often than they used too. I guess the romantic stage was over and the war had begun. I looked up at the night sky and I wondered if I would ever find someone like my mother and father, they loved each other and didn't even argue. They finished each other's thoughts and sentences. It was like they were on the same page all the time. No, there was no one like that for me. Just a stupid black cat that showed up whenever I came to the park to get away from my boyfriend...

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Follow Duke

Submitted to Contest #187

Macy considered Duke might be leaving her, like everyone else, when the lanky Great Dane tore after a sleek grey cat into the woods. She considered turning around. She could sulk back to her dilapidated cabin, save herself the effort and inevitability. But Duke was all she had left, and that dog needed her. She needed him. Quietly cursing, she zipped her tattered raincoat and trudged off the deserted road into the woods.Soggy dead leaves crunched beneath her worn sneakers; the damp rot soaked into her socks. Macy should have felt nervous abo...

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Midnight

Submitted to Contest #187

                          He just appeared one day in early Fall, peeking out from behind the car’s front tire, green eyes wide with fear, black fur blending in with his hiding place. I stood motionless exchanging his stare, hoping my presence wouldn’t scare him away. Several minutes passed but his eyes never left mine, though were less wide, replaced it seemed by cautious curiosity. Warily, one paw moved for...

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The Melting Pot

Submitted to Contest #187

I woke up outside of my car with the feeling that something was licking my face. I struggled to open my eyes, to move. My body didn’t feel like my own anymore. Signals from my brain weren’t having any impact. ‘Stop licking my face! Your breath really stinks!’ I thought.   Whatever it was, it was sitting right on my chest, very persistently licking my mouth. It took all my effort, but I managed to open my eyes. The licking stopped. I was staring at an enormous black cat with golden eyes. Where’s the deer? It all happened so fast. O...

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A Fairy, A Child, and a Cat

Submitted to Contest #187

The white tip of the cat’s tail disappeared under a bushel of cowberry. Ghillie Dhu looks up from the deer’s leg he was finishing mending. He grumbles, always the humans’ meddlesome animals disturbing his forest. Ghillie looks at the deer who’s eyes blink up at him as if to say I don’t know what you should do. Ghillie Dhu had a reputation to uphold as guardian of the Caledonian forest. Humans were meant to be afraid of him. What if it got around that he allowed a simple house cat to move about the forest as it pleases. Ghillie Dhu stood up w...

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