Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder by Nadxieli Nieto Lincoln Michel

Author:Nadxieli Nieto Lincoln Michel [Lincoln Michel, Nadxieli Nieto]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2018-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

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The cat that swiped that coffee cup off the desk? Jeeves was our first meme. Filmed right here in this lounge-set. It’s so realistically crappy, isn’t it? Modeled after my apartment, I’m embarrassed to say. Of course Jeeves is long dead now. God, that was insensitive. I’m sorry. You have my deepest sympathies about your boss, you really do. Our best client, bar none. I mean wow . . . what a shock, great dancer . . . that Christmas party.”

In the lounge-set strewn with children’s toys, a long-haired Persian jams its head in a toy bucket. It forges blindly on, wearing the bucket as a helmet.

“Come to think of it, that’s how your department found us. Jeevesy’s owner was at the Christmas party down in D.C. Of course there are no ‘owners’ anymore. We breed everything ourselves. Take this little girl. She’s a Cornish rex, specially bred for climbing.”

A ribbed red cat climbs the shredded wallpaper, circumnavigating the room using claws as crampons.

“Trust me, you don’t want that thing on your lap. Not exactly friendly now that we engineer them. By the way, police took your boss’s briefcase, so I hope you weren’t expecting any personal effects. They never saw the project he had us working on, of course. I thought it best to return the files to you on the Q.T.”

A black-and-white Ragdoll cat is slumped over a Roomba vacuum cleaner as it blindly ricochets around the room. The cat stretches, snagging a low-hanging

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