The Death Of The Motherless Kitten

By Huang Kaishan

Huang Kaishan's haunting story "The Death Of The Motherless Kitten" first appeared in issue thirty-eight of Neon, all the way back in 2014. In that year, it was one of our Pushcart Prize nominations. In it, a hapless narrator tells and retells a story about seeing a lost kitten by the side of the road. As the narrative fractures into a spray of different possible endings and meanings, it becomes clear that he's hiding something dark and terrible.

Originally published in issue thirty-eight of Neon, this short story is now available as an individual eBook edition. Read more about it at www.neonmagazine.co.uk.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Neon Books
• Release date: Feb 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311682918

Huang Kaishan

Huang Kaishan is a communications graduate from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore, working as a freelance video copywriter while writing short stories. She’s mad about books and films and pop culture. You can read her other published work, “D is for Discipline”, in The Quarterly Literary Review Of Singapore.

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