Shadows 4 by Charles L. Grant

Author:Charles L. Grant
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-12T22:32:44+00:00

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The delights of editing include (among other things) the unexpected. A short while ago, Donald A. Wollheim sent me this story without warning. As it happens, there aren't too many fans more enthralled by Tanith Lee's fantasy than I; nor, I suspect, do they realize how wonderfully dark is a corner of Ms. Lee's soul that can produce a piece like . . .

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MEOW by Tanith Lee

I was young, last year. I was twenty-six. That was the year I met Cathy.

I was writing a novel that year, too. Maybe you never read it. Midnight and four A.M., five or six nights a week, I used to do my magician act at the King of Cups, on Aster. It paid some bills and it was fun, that act. Even more fun when you suddenly look out over the room and there's a girl with hair like white wine, and the flexible, fluid shape of a ballet dancer, looking back at you, hanging on every breath you take.

Later, around four-thirty, when we were sitting in a corner together, I saw there was a little gold cat pendant in the hollow of her throat. Later still, when we'd walked back, all across the murmuring frosty pre-dawn city, with the candy-wrapper leaves blowing and crackling underfoot, I brushed the cat aside so I could kiss her neck.

I didn't realize, then, I was going to have trouble with cats.

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