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    LOST AND FOUND – A CAT TALE

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    An outcast—neglected, homeless and starving— she sat waiting, eyes alert to the feeder where perched the possibility of breakfast on a cold March day. 

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    Dog at rest on back of sofa

    In a piece of short fiction this scene at an urban bus stop introduces the reader to a number of people through the eyes of one harried, tired…

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