I laughed at Marcus’s t-shirt bearing a demented image of his awful cat, Spook, who hated me, along with the words “I’m going to haunt you when I die.”
I never understood those words were meant for me. Spook’s ghost haunts my days, a constant reminder that cats hold grudges.
I wrote this 50-word story for a prompt for “Fifties by the Fire” on Along the Hudson. It first published in the prompt thread there on October 28th. You can read the other responses here.
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I think being haunted by a cat would be much worse than being haunted by a human. Cats are much more strategic!
Our cat, Kinmo, also holds grudges.