Poison Paw

By Bonnie Elizabeth

Sometimes work slips in through the window even after you're retired.

 

Chickadee, a specially trained silver shaded Persian feline assassin wakes to a soft noise. The scent of a female Siamese reaches her nose. 

 

Chickadee's human, Yvonne slumbers in the bedroom unaware of the danger that has entered her home. Will Chickadee's reflexes remain fast enough to save Yvonne before the Siamese assassin strikes?

 

Poison Paw is a short urban fantasy about a pair of unlikely assassins. Fans of Bonnie Elizabeth will no doubt delight in this tale told by a former feline assassin.

• Language: English
• Publisher: My Big Fat Orange Cat Publishing
• Release date: Aug 23, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386945710

Bonnie Elizabeth

Bonnie Elizabeth could never decide what to do, so she wrote stories about amazing things and sometimes she even finished them. While rejection stung her so badly in person, she spent most of her young life talking to cats and dogs rather than people, she was unusually resilient when it came to rejections on her writing, racking up a good number of them. Floating through a variety of jobs, including veterinary receptionist, cemetery administrator, and finally acupuncturist, she continued to write stories. When the internet came along (yes, she’s old), she started blogging as her cat, because we all know cats don’t notice rejection. Then she started publishing. Bonnie writes in a variety of genres. Her popular Whisper series is contemporary fantasy and her Teenage Fairy Godmother series is written for teens. She has published in a number of anthologies and is working on expanding her writing repertoire. She lives with her husband (who talks less than she does) and her three cats, who always talk back. You can find out more about her books at her publisher, My Big Fat Orange Cat Publishing.

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Poison Paw

Poison Paw

Bonnie Elizabeth

My Big Fat Orange Cat Publishing

Poison Paw

My Big Fat Orange Cat

Contemporary Fantasy, August 2017

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Copyright 2017

Bonnie Elizabeth Koenig

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Poison Paw

About Bonnie Elizabeth

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Poison Paw

Retirement doesn’t mean stupid. It means I no longer go out on jobs. It means I can enjoy being a cat, demanding the best food and a comfy bed. But if a job comes to me, I won’t ignore it or act like a scared little housecat. Certain reflexes never die .

It started like this. I was sleeping in my cat bed that sat perched on the table in front of the window. It was a little drafty there in the winter, but in the summer the temperature was perfect for me. The windows let in the warmth from the outside to mitigate the chill air coming from the air conditioner that Yvonne needed to have turned up in order to sleep.

I had no such problems. In fact, I preferred a little extra warmth.

The house smelled of me,