By Simon Barker

Simon Barker is an Australian living in Sydney, although for a number of years he lived in the Bay Area of California. His stories have appeared in New Ohio Review, Water~Stone Review, Event and some other publications.
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The Wind-up Cat Chronicle

  I woke from a deep sleep and lay on my back for a good minute, looking through the window at the autumn sky, which was clear after a week of rain. Then suddenly I had this strange feeling. You were lying next to me, very still. For a second I panicked. Then I remembered…