This is the best short story I’ve read in quite a while – here’s an excerpt
I can’t explain this, so you’ll just have to believe me: last month my brother and sister-in-law asked my wife and me to adopt one of their cats. Maybe that doesn’t sound like much to you. Maybe you think it happens all the time — somebody decides they have too many cats and somebody else absorbs the surplus. But there was one little anomaly in this situation. We live in Ravenswood, and they live in a small town an hour’s drive from Seattle.
Why didn’t they look for a respectable, cat-needy household in their own neighborhood — even in their own time zone? That’s what I can’t explain. It was just one of those things: as Johnny Carson once said, “If you buy the premise, you’ll buy the bit.” They thought it made sense to ship a cat two thousand miles, and I ended up in a live-action version of a Magritte painting. Life works out that way sometimes — my life in particular.
Check out the rest of this amazing story at LeeSandlin.com
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