Only A Phase, Ma: A Gallery of Oddities Story

By Dean Shearer

In the Gallery of Oddities hangs a particularly strange portrait. 
An ordinary summer day, no school, nothing to do, Mom's yapping and she just won't stop. Time to go find the cat.
And time to get your arm torn off by a creature in the gutter. 
But the Gallery wants more. Which means one simple injury spirals into an endless summer of strangeness. 
A portrait of a boy and his mother as only can be painted in the Gallery of Oddities. 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dean Shearer
• Release date: Aug 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201034399

Dean Shearer

Dean Shearer is the author of many fictitious works such as The Cat, The World is Magic, and the short stories series Selah, the Universe. He wishes there was more to say about himself (he likes studying religions and walking barefoot and reading and writing in multiple genres and reading and writing a lot) but there's just too much to say.

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Only A Phase, Ma

ONLY A PHASE, MA

A GALLERY OF ODDITIES STORY

DEAN SHEARER

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Only A Phase, Ma

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ONLY A PHASE, MA

ONE

Mom told me to go get the damn cat, Jerry, who was once a tomcat, before we took him from the streets and made him our own. He had run away last night. He was a tomcat, and he was the king of the streets.

Go out to fetch him I did.

It was the summer of 2014, and I was a fourteen-year-old boy who didn’t quite know what sex was, and I was walking down twelfth street, one of the busiest streets in town, looking for Jerry.

The wind blew and shook the trees. I called for my cat. He probably didn’t hear me. When the wind blows in Leafblow it blows hard, and my voice, no doubt, was swept away into the cosmos, never to