Yesterday's Cat: Episode 1: Before the Storm

By Naomi Kramer

Angie Chau is an agent of the Time Department. She returns from a seemingly routine assignment with her objective unobtained, and finds chaos ensuing. Someone is attempting to steal the time-travel technology, and they're willing to take out Angie along the way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Naomi Kramer
• Release date: Jan 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311370501

Naomi Kramer

Naomi Kramer is an Australian author living in Queensland. She's addicted to coffee, dyes her hair odd colours, and looks a little like a corporate hippy on weekdays. She loves the beach, and her dream is to own a world-class barista.

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Note from the Author

If you've read my Bad Fuck collections, you'll note that the start of this episode comes from one of those short stories. See, I got to wondering why a naked redhead was snogging Wayne and telling him to hang around for seven years. This serial is the answer.

Episode 1: Before the Storm

Wayne browsed the science fiction shelves of the library, sighing.

Read it, read it, hate that author, Star Wars crap, read that whole bloody shelf. Why, Lord? Why is the best stuff always in short supply? he muttered.

He sighed, pulled out a Heinlein hardback he'd read at least a dozen times before, and made his way to a small, secluded reading area near one of the few windows. It was on the far side of the non-fiction from the fiction and children's area, so was usually sparsely populated and free of drooling, snotty brats.

Today, though, a naked woman sat on one of the low vinyl single-person lounges, legs crossed, seeming deeply engrossed in a Stephen Hawking tome. Luxurious red hair cascaded over her shoulders and completely failed to hide anything of interest.

Wayne dropped his book on his foot and yelped.

Shhhh! said the woman without looking up, "this is a library, not