I've had cats all my life. NONE have had the personality of the tuxedo cat I have now. When Amber Allure wanted to put together a PAX of stories about pets bringing their owners together, I hopped on board. My little darling even got to be the cover model!
Authors are frequently asked if bits and pieces of their own lives creep into their stories. In A Cat Named Hercules, I say "yes." Raising a kitten can be quite an experience, as Shiloh finds out. It's a good thing he has a sexy vet on speed dial.
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If I had only known kittens can climb drapes, perch on top of a
traverse rod, and then screech like some femme fatale in a low budget horror flick to be rescued.
That a kitten sounds like a herd of buffalo running on hardwood floors in the middle of the night.
If I had only known a kitten’s claws can sink through a sheet into your balls while you’re jerking off.
An old adage says “live and learn” and I amassed an encyclopedic amount of cat wisdom in less than twenty-four hours.
I tried to do as Galen suggested and put the kitten in the bathroom with food, water, and his litter box for his first night in his new home. He wailed at the top of his kitten vocal chords, and I figured he was alone and scared so I opened the door – mistake one.
A CAT NAMED HERCULES
Book five in the Men of Marionville series
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KC Kendricks
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2 comments:
Oh boy, the joys of a kitten! This is great, made me chuckle.
There will never be another like the cat I have now. Every cat owner has the one they'll always remember as extra-special and he's it for me. (Which is a good thing because another one like him would wear me out!)
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