David A. Liy offers us this frisky, forward-looking tale about a cat who lives at least one of his nine lives in the distant future. Is he an accidental stowaway, awakened from interstellar hibernation? Or is he merely beginning an entirely new cat-incarnation? Either way, he’s got it made in the [...]

Of everything the prolific Stefanie Allison has written for our site, I like this piece for our CatTales contest the most. I have posted it exactly as she sent it to me, without adding or subtracting a single comma or space or dash or period. Her voice is sure, her tone [...]

“Don’t be greedy,” we’re often admonished as children. However, when you’re a cat (genetically related to lions, let’s not forget) greed can be downright fun, as Janet Klise shows in this short story for our CatTales contest. That little bit of lion inside every cat remembers prowling through the tall grass, [...]

After reading this piece by David McDuffie – his second entry into our CatTales contest – you’ll look twice at your innocent little housecat. And we thought they liked us! Ah, but that’s the thing about cats; they’re never what they seem. (Neither are rabbits, apparently; David reveals that they [...]

David McDuffie’s short story for our CatTales contest is full of useful information, like what to do if you get your head stuck in a chain-link fence, and what a coyote is, and why you ought to listen to rabbits if they’re kind enough to help you.

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From the earliest times, cats have been associated with the hereafter. And no wonder; there’s something unnerving about the way cats seem to appear and disappear⎯suddenly underfoot where a moment before they were nowhere in sight; or mysteriously absent from someplace you’d swear you just seen them⎯vanishing without a trace, except [...]

The following tidbit, inspired by our CatTales contest, is classic Julie Ann Weinstein: ghosts and sex in a slim, silver-backed, mirror-shard of narrative suffused with wistful longing. In Julie’s pieces, real life and the afterlife slide against each other repeatedly, and we catch pale glimpses of characters and possibly even [...]

Once we open the door and our cats slip through into the great, wide beyond, who knows what sorts of shenanigans they get up to? Barry Drucker, in this short story for our CatTales contest, imagines a world where anything goes. The species barrier is no barrier at all, if [...]

In this poem by Donna Dellinger, inspired by our CatTales contest, the author delves deeply into the workings of the feline mind. We come to understand the cat’s hidden motivation (“Notice me!”) and discover its darkest secrets (“I like sunshine!”). Donna reveals what cats are really saying when their ears [...]