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9 Lives: Consecutive Substack Story 1199

My brother was eating a damn fish sandwich, picked up his pack of smokes and three hours later our Mama’s cat choked on the cellophane.

Our Mama wailed for days, then Chuckie got her a new cat, and she wailed louder.

Mama said she didn’t want a new cat, she wanted Fluffbutt back, and on top of that Chuckie had to throw out the cellophane ‘fore he came in the house or he couldn’t smoke in it no more.

I came home from fishin one day and the drapes were tore like someone took a weed whip to ‘em, and Mama was sitting at the Uno table sobbin’.