From a Cats View

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Post-To-Print Publishing

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491_9780998468556

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FROM A CAT'S VIEW is a novel-length collection of short stories that will tug at the whiskers of cat lovers everywhere. This unique anthology is drawn from a pool of exceptional writers in the US, UK, and Canada, who share fascinating insights into the relationship between humans and their feline owners:TWO HOURS, a poem of freedom re-envisioned THE CEMETERY CAT - There was a cat for each grave--three-hundred forty-seven in all--and one had unfinished business.SPECIAL - Family is ... well, family. Maxie is special, and only Aunt 'Po can lift him from the gutter to the good life.TISHY - Some cats are talented. Others are unnaturally talented. Tishy outdid herself the day she brought home Quintus Liberalis.INTREPIDUS - It wasn't the first time he'd made her feel alone and unloved. The breach between cat and human can be insurmountable, and the need to strike out from the pain of unrequited love, impossible to ignore.WITCH CAT - Her kind are on the way out, but Old Gert isn't one to go quietly. She knew just what to do: Cheat! "Here kitty, kitty."MOONLIGHT, a poem on notions of contentment MAU OF THE PHARAOHS - Favored by the living God, Tutankhamun, Mau, in exchange for safe passage to the next world, offers Bastet his life story as viewed from the laps of three pharaohs.BIG EARS - A plague curses the village of Culloden and beyond. Little do the superstitious humans understand they've condemned their only chance for salvation.NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT - Freedom is only as good as the next pilfered salmon fillet. Atticus prospered, now it was time to level up to fulfillment.THE OPEN ROAD - Most shun the solitary life; a few seek it. Quicksilver, ship's cat by profession, was in the latter group.MULGRAVE'S RESOLVE - Endurance, boredom, hunger, anger, reward: Mr. Mulgrave conquered the milestones on the road to survival one at a time, alone. But for the last mile,

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