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"The CatrCOs Choice" by Sarah A. Hoyt
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/08/11/the-cats-choice/
"In that day in the garden when reality shuddered and the great I Am
descended in terrible glory upon his creations, the animals hid. The
lion cub and the lamb crouched beneath a bush trying to make themselves
small and quiet, while their mothers sought the total darkness of the
trees and spied, with wide and frightened eyes as wind rose throwing
clots of Earth into the air bruising the delicate flowers and startling
the insects."
"Above thunder like a ripping of gigantic cloth sounded, deafening, and
the sky that had always been blue turned raging violet and angry red."
"Even then, in those moments, the lioness and the ewe knew something had changed. The ewe felt a dread of her old friend, though she could not
say why, and the lioness found herself thinking that this, the companion
of her untroubled days smelled like food. They looked at their babies a
few feet off and worried. Then forgot it as the thunder sounded again,
and a sound as if of footfalls, and the voice that spoke louder than all creation and through all creation asked rCLAdam, where are you?rCY"
Continued online.
Lynn
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