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Cat: A Little Game of Little Heroes
Published by Wicked Dead Brewing Company
Written by John Wick
44-Page A5-Sized Spiral Bound Book; $15
1.4 MEG PDF Document; $8As I write this review, Miw is sat watching me. In fact, she has been staring at me for some time now. Perhaps she is hungry, but when I check her dishes she has fresh food. Does she need her dirt tray emptying? I check that and no. Is she bored? I go upstairs and find "fishie on a stick" from where she dropped it last night. Once back downstairs, I jerk it up and down in front of her, but Miw just bats her eyes at me and gives me her best "Bored now," look. After all that activity I still do not know why she is staring at me.
But after reading John Wick's Cat: A Little Game of Little Heroes, I know more. You see, we are not in charge -- and neither are the mice. Nor are those vain vampires or woolly werewolves, so there is nothing to worry about on that front. No, the Cats are in charge, and I am not all that surprised. You see, they won a contest, between them, the Dogs, and Us. Guess who came last? And because of that, the Cats as champions have to protect the losers, Us. But from what? Simply, Boggins.
Which Miw has since told me are bad little things full of teeth and claws and claws and teeth, and we cannot see them because we are very good at ignoring them. A Boggin can cause fear and anger and laziness and all sorts of negative emotions, driving its claws and teeth into Us, working to weaken Us and eventually . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: November 11, 2005
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