Cathy Gale

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“The perfect present” by Cathy Gale

Submitted to Contest #187

That horrible white stuff isn’t there anymore, but I am not sure I want to go outside. The stranger slides open the glass door, looks at me and points at my territory but I can’t believe that it’s going to be any different to the last two days when my stomach sank into it, and I could feel icy wet all along. I could hardly lift my legs. I look up at the stranger and refuse to move. Oh dear. The body goes in and out and there is a lot more fur on the top of the head than on my human. Then my fears that this is a female are confirmed when she...

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Cathy Gale took up creative writing during the Covid lockdowns, when she retired early from librarianship, a career which provided the perfect opportunity to read promiscuously and know it was useful for work. The lockdowns provided the perfect opportunity to attend online writing classes and to complete her first novel “Ill conceived.” Cathy lives in Ipswich, has been married to Colin for thirty five years and has one grown up son.