Look What the Cat Dragged In

By Kira Bacal

Beware of entertaining angels unaware...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kira Bacal
• Release date: Feb 8, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465883292

Kira Bacal

Trained as a physician and scientist, Kira Bacal has worked at NASA-Johnson Space Center and the U.S. Senate as well as with the U.S. military. She qualified in two medical specialties and has numerous professional publications in medical and scientific journals and texts. For her fiction writing, she was named the “Best Newcomer Author” in the January 2009 international Quibbler Awards and had one story win both “Best General” and “Best Chemistry” categories in the same awards. This same story, which appeared online, has enjoyed some recent popularity, with over 2,500,000 hits (and counting) from readers around the globe, primarily the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, and Europe, but also places from Singapore to Botswana, Saudi Arabia to Guatemala. Kira has also been a quarterfinalist in the “Writers of the Future” contest and runner up for the Higney Award at the magazine Another Realm. She currently lives in New Zealand with her children and a large, vandalism-prone Leonberger.

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Look What the Cat Dragged In

Kira Bacal

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Copyright 2012 Kira Bacal

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When I heard the whimper at my back door, I first thought I was imagining it. It had only been a few months since my beloved Ajax had finally crossed the rainbow bridge to the land of bountiful chew toys and dog biscuits, and I frequently mistook the odd scraping of a tree branch as a much-missed scratching at the door. But after a few minutes it became clear that my mind wasn’t playing tricks on me – there really was something out there, in the blinding blizzard.

As soon as I