Excerpts From Herman Meowville’s “Mousey-Stick”
Captain Acat cared only of capturing and destroying the white catnip mouse, which he called “Mousey-Stick.”
CHAPTER 1. Prowlings
Call me Fishtail. Some of my nine lives ago, having no place to call home, I thought I would stalk about the domesticated part of the world. On that night, I was startled mid-prowl by a patrolling animal control vehicle and was scooped into the caged darkness of a van.
CHAPTER 14. Nantuccat
In the confined space of the kennel, I often contorted myself to soothingly lick my own butthole. After some time, my unlikely companion — a foreign tortoiseshell named Quesadilla — and I were shipped off to the PetSmart on the isle of Nantuccat, Mouseachusetts.
CHAPTER 16. The Shelter
The PetSmart stood vast and resolute. An insidious canine odor wafted from her far corner, which was adorned with foul Milk-Bone nomnoms. But for all the dregs dedicated to a lesser pet, there stood on the opposite wall a marvelous feature called the Kitty Korner.
In the center of our quarters stood a paneled playpen, and in the center of that, a mast-like tower of toy mice — each dangling from its own…
