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My first horror story. And it's about a cat.

My first horror story. And it's about a cat.

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When I was 20 years old, I was in a creative writing class in college. I was obsessed with my cat, Triple Trouble, a giant tabby who loved bringing us both living and dead things from his safaris. The only Stephen King work I’d read was Firestarter in high school before I wrote this piece of flash fiction. So, he wasn’t an …

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