Short stories tagged with Cats

Listing 15 stories.

A dog’s owners give her the ability to talk and realize she’s Black.

A mysterious man treks into a quaint English village, where he stays the night with a couple and learns the town’s strange history surrounding mummification and entombment, as well as its local legend of a black dog that kills any person who sees it.

In a rural American town, a boy must exterminate a horde of cats in his family's barn while his parents' marriage disintegrates around him.

A college sophomore meets a thirty-something-year-old guy while working. Despite being exciting initially, the relationship heads towards uncomfortable territory.

When a man marries a princess from Cimmeria, a country he believes he imagined into existence, he must come to terms with a culture that recognizes twins as a single person—a primary and their shadow—and the lengths a shadow twin would go to in order to become their own person.

A young girl goes through a door in her house and discovers a parallel universe — only in this world, her seemingly loving family have cruel intentions.

A woman and her cat run away from an unspecified crime to live on the outskirts of dystopian Earth, a place littered with fear, stale popcorn, and ticket stubs to a circus performance that will never happen.

A half-blind, toothless addict befriends a talking cat--together they must escape their toxic surroundings.

A restless Southern wife faces a feline foe as she plans to run away with her lover.

A lonely, aging American man joins forces with a French street vendor to sell his goods as his own funds dwindle.