Set your story in a cat shelter.

Posted in Fiction on Feb 24, 2023

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“Feels Like Home” by Erin Keeney

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‘Vivian!!’ Le Sigh. ‘Vivian! What on Earth are you eating over there?!’ Vivian rolled her deep, hazel flecked eyes, and lifted her right paw to block Donald from coming any closer. She curled her other paw on top of her pile of turkey slices Diane the janitor had left her earlier that morning. ‘Donald, ce n’est pas ton prob´´´leme!!’ She replied flatly, exasperated. The rain hadn’t stopped ticking on the tin roof for days, it seemed. But what were days, anyway? Vivian, like all of her furry roomma...

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“Cat-astrophe ” by Reem Alomari

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The alarm didn’t wake me up this time around. The smell did. It was fishy, potently so. I peel my eyes open, yawning in the process and stretching out my achy muscles. I’m not in my bed. I clearly slept on the floor. The carpet beige and worn out. I try to remember how I got here, but nothing’s coming up. It’s completely dark and quiet and the harder I try to remember the more I realise it’s pointless. Did I blackout last night? I’ve never blacked out before. I’ve never been drunk, never did drugs. Could someone hav...

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“Green Eyed” by Marylou Iheme

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Piercing green eyes. Piercing. Maybe that's what scared them away, she thought to herself as she sat in the lonely shelter waiting for her time to run out. She knew that wasn't it, she was just lying to herself. I'd lie too. She'd rather drift away in denial than accept that it wasn't her eyes, her nose, her whiskers... it was the velvety coat that enveloped her. The black velvety coat that kept her warm at night. The same coat that kept them away. Why me? How could I have done something to deserve this if I couldn't even open my eyes. I was...

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“Snowball” by Chell~Linn Araya

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“Really Daddy?” Cassidy shrieked, her curly pigtails swinging wildly while she bounced in her seat. “Sure thing, Princess. Mom and I talked and we’re impressed with how well you’ve been keeping your room clean, and helping with the dishes,” Tom gave her a wink in the mirror then looked back at the road, “so we decided you are old enough, responsible enough, to have a cat of your very own!” “Yippee! I’m gonna pick a black cat and name him Midnight! No, wait, an orange one and name him Sherbert. Oh, I know, a gray one named Shadow! Wait, how...

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“Only light clears rain” by Tharu Gala

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Only light clears rain In a room, seated on a couch, a man was peering out of a window. He saw rain pouring heavily through the streets. The roar was so loud that he could hear it through the walls. He looked at the picture of a boy on his phone and a darkened expression coloured his face. "This isn't good…" he muttered to himself. On the other side of town, at a bus stop, a boy was staring blankly at another creature a quarter in height to himself. It was currently grooming its orange fur. There was a tag unde...

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“Little Glutton” by K.E. MacPhie

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“Thanks for coming in, it’s way easier to do this in person than over the phone” Lisa had been stopping by sporadically for the three months I had been assigned to oversee the final stages of construction on the new cat shelter and veterinary clinic here on The Rez. A City Indian myself, living at the casino hotel and commuting daily to the facility in a little work-provided sedan with the big words "Animal Humane Society" plastered along the side, I had already been quite the oddity in town. But she was always kind and wise, happy to help m...

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“A Second Chance” by Anna Westfall

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A loud bang awoke Fritz with a start. He lifted his head just high enough to peer through the bars and saw an overturned metal food dish and kibble strewn across the floor. “Such a waste,” he grumbled, turning over, and burying his head back under his towel. “Get me out of here!” a high, panicked voice yowled from the next cage. “Get me out of here! I don’t belong here!” Being old and a rather heavy sleeper, Fritz didn’t notice he had acquired a new neighbor. Lifting his head again just ever so slightly, he saw a young, orange tabby in the...

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“Cat Shelter” by Christine Bialczak

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Cat Shelter Hank: Bubbles, hey, can you hear me? Bubbles: Yeah, what do ya want? Hank: Well, did you hear da lady say that we are gettin some new inmates? Bubbles: Why you gotta say we’re inmates, like we live in a cage or somethin? Hank: Well, we do! What do ya got in that head a yours besides bubbles? Georgi: Hank, leave the poor kid alone! He aint done nothing to you so you should be compashnit for the poor kid. Hank: Comp-what? Georgi you got about as many bubbles in your head as the little one does. Darlene: Will the three...

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“Alanna and the White Wall Place” by Jennifer Brown

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It has been 163 days since I have seen outside these walls. The white that surrounds me is something like a jail. It is, however, a contrast to the darkness of Before, when she rarely flipped on the lights, the curtains pulled tight to lock out the sunshine. Food was scattered across countertops on our best days, competing with my brothers on every other one for each morsel that sustained us. Sound had hummed from the box with the moving humans on it, unknown voices filling the space around us. That was where she spent most of her ...

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Set your story in a cat shelter.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 24 stories

“Feels Like Home” by Erin Keeney

“Cat-astrophe ” by Reem Alomari

“Green Eyed” by Marylou Iheme

“Snowball” by Chell~Linn Araya

“Only light clears rain” by Tharu Gala

“Little Glutton” by K.E. MacPhie

“A Second Chance” by Anna Westfall

“Cat Shelter” by Christine Bialczak

“Alanna and the White Wall Place” by Jennifer Brown

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

Write a story from the point of view of a big cat — whether that’s a lion, cheetah, etc., or just a chunky pet.

Write about a cat living in an ancient temple, like the Acropolis.

Write about a human and a cat that come to some kind of mutual understanding.

Contest #187

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