Cat-ageddon: The Caterwauling, episode 3

By Roody Harris

This episode starts With a frightening descriptions of a Haunted house containing almost every known poison to cats. Then It returns to the stories of Winston the mind controlling British Short-hair with a curious agenda as he navigates up the coast on a greyhound buss to long island where he meets with Bob the mechanics, under worldly cat, Black Tom for clandestine reasons. Then the episode turns its Focus to Stampy the Velcro calico who shortly after making her home in Brooklyn gets cat napped by two mutually masochistic codependents who live their unconventionally abusive and gore proned lifestyle off the grid with an Abyssinian cat named Chester. “The Horror” issue then takes us to a Japanese Cat Island where something unusual is brewing in the cat feces, that the self exiled man in a lab coat spends all of his time collecting. Follows stories from episode one and two.

Cat-ageddon is a Stylistic world that exists between the Genres of Hard Science fiction, Science Fantasy, Horror, Magical realism, Mystery and Literary fiction. It is a cat themed attempt to steal the fire from the Astrophysics, Cosmology, Space travel and Computer Sciences and give it to some of the unrepresented branches of science such as Behavioural Economics, Animal Psychology, Evolution, Ornithology, Virology Bacteriology and Industrial Psychology. In this world we bring science fiction back to the planet and give it to cats.

Cat-ageddon is written for cat lovers, in that it gives cats an honest treatments in writing. It makes distinctions between breeds and cat behaviors. It develops them as characters while keeping them raw and natural. It gives cats the respect of not needing to put them in clothes or make them walk on their hind legs. It tells many interesting stories without resorting to having cats speak their minds in English when no one is around. It Depicts them as intelligent and Involved in our lives and imbides them with a sense of respect that is easily carried over into fear.

Cat-ageddon is an expansive and diverse world of humans and cats with the range and character diversity of the Simpsons universe. And the variety of story content that accommodates something for everyone.

If you are fans of podcasts like Radiolab and Freakonomics with science based interviews and listen to bands with quirky literary content like the Eels the Mountain Goats, Ween and the Presidents of the United States of America, you will enjoy this series.
If you enjoy the idea density of Philip K Dick, the humorous levity of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. and Douglas Adams, the poetic intensity of Ray Bradbury as well as the technical creativity of Larry Niven you will like this series.
If you like cats you will like this series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Roody Harris
• Release date: Apr 28, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463083666

Roody Harris

Roody Harris is the Author of the current and forthcoming, CAT-AGGEDON, CAT-APOCALYPSE, CAT-POST APOCALYPTIC Series. This series is a cat themed attempt to make Hard science fiction out of the soft sciences in a serial format. Roody Harris was born in the pacific northwest, in a town that contrasted the servicing and financing of huge sea born war machines with an unending wealth of natural beauty, he considers himself a rugged Northwesterner. After traveling the united states in a random and panicked manner studying the social fabric of america he returned to his home town. He currently Lives in Silverdale Wa with his partner Felicia Garrison together they have seven children.They spend all of free time together their time making and eating cheeseburgers and pies and working on thier food truck. Roody Harris is a Chef and Felicia is a baker and together they form the dynamic food vending team CHOP AND ROLL. Roody has worked in restaurants all over the united states his specialty is Asian fusion and corporate cuisine. Roody learned to write on the corner of 76th and Mcdowell in Phoenix Arizona by writing random sentences on cardboard and holding them up to traffic to see how much change he could get. It was there he discovered the most that the most effective sentence in the English language was “Hungry, God Bless.”

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CAT-AGEDDON, The Caterwauling, episode 3

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EPISODE 3

THE HOUSE ON THE CORNER

WINSTON

STAMPY

CHESTER

BLACK TOM

CAT ISLAND

THE HOUSE ON THE CORNER

The house was in the town and there were no cats living in the town. There had been cats in the town, but the cats had gone missing at some point. The cats were never replenished from the place cats come from. No free kittens were being offered outside the five and dime. No ads for kittens in the paper. No pet store carried them.

Get yourself a lizard,, the clerk would chime, coming out of the room with the heat lamps where the snakes were born. The Humane Society did not see cats. No one at a time, new families who would move into the town with their housecats and soon be posting signs. The house was old and quaint and it had the mossy glow of a fairy tale cottage.

In the chipping flower boxes, there were always flowers. There was Autumn Crocus, the Azaleas, the Cyclamen with pink wide brushstroke petals, the Golden Daffodils beside a lake of grass beneath the tree, and the Dieffenbachia with their natural plastic houseplant glow. There was also Kalanchoe, the Oleander, the Tulips, the Hyacinths, the Sago Palm and the Lilies, as well as The Tiger Lily, the Lily of the valley, the Day, Lily the Wood Lily, the Red Lily, the western Lily, the Asiatic Lily, and the Stargazer Lily.

Then the man in the suit came to the town and asked why there was no cats. He noticed the variety and glow of the perennial life and investigated. As he walked in the tall grass to the backyard, he saw there were birds and rabbits freely hopping about carefree and uninhibited by predatory fear. He also saw garden boxes with a few grape vines, onions and garlic, leeks and ramps and spring onions and chive.

When the man in the suit looked through the window, he saw bottles of bleach and carpet shampoo, bottles of vodka and packages of sugar-free gum, and various buckets and jars sitting on the tile and grout floor. The counter by the sink held bottles of pills that looked like aspirin, Tylenol and ibuprofen, some diet pills and bottles of cold medicine. The dryer sheets were on top of the sample boxes of antidepressant, next to wrappers from chocolate bars.

He stumbled away from the window and investigated the shed in the backyard. It was full of rusted cages and traps and old lawn mowers missing parts. The shed had rusty tools he didn’t recognize, but their metal blades and bars looked menacing.

On the floor in the shed lay Mason jars of different sizes that were filled to different levels with different colored fluids. Next to the bottles sat Antifreeze and Windshield wiper fluid, bottles of Deet and canned heat and insecticides, bottles of Rid and rodent bait, along with cans of glue and plastic containers of fertilizer. The scene looked strange and reeked of dark summoning, of the type of magic that should be left alone.

From the yard, he smelled a strong and unidentifiable scent that permeated the vibrant and strange property. The smell reminded him of the smell of the old neighbor’s house from his childhood. The