Cat Scratch Fever And Other Stories

When Skinny Malink meets Rosemary Fingerhat, she discovers a new world with cats as its focus. Skinny, whose real name is Sally, is introduced to the Ailurophile Society, a vast association of cat admirers. The only requirement to be a member is cohabitation with a very special cat, or cats. The society is quite vast. With Rosemary to guide her, Skinny meets some of the most unique people in town all of whom are devoted to serving cats of exceptional intelligence, beauty, virtue and charm. There are cats that need love, cats that need a bath and cats that get themselves and their owners into all sorts of trouble. But in their own ways, they are mysterious, adorable and inspiring. As the duo attempts to record the stories of the society, they find themselves collecting amazing tales, solving family dilemmas and mending broken hearts, all while enjoying the company of some very special felines in Catscratch Fever and Other Stories.

Tsia had dreamed all her life of becoming a guide, attuned to her world through a telepathic gate to another lifeform. At last, she took the guide virus that would mutate her body to create the gate she so desperately craved. But the lifeform her body took was the one lifeform forbidden--the felines, who had scouted the planet for the First Droppers and, in exchange, been promised their freedom forever from human domination. By laws of the Guide Guild and the First-Landing Pact, she could never call to the cats, never speak with them, never approach them. But then capture and imprisonment, torture and slavery took the place of an empty future. Suddenly Tsia's only hope lay with her gate--and once she had touched the cats, there would be no turning back...

A highly anticipated collection of wildly imaginative short stories from “one of contemporary fiction’s true mad scientists” (Necessary Fiction). In the weird and wonderful tradition of Kelly Link and Karen Russell, Amber Sparks’s dazzling new collection bursts forth with stories that render the apocalyptic and otherworldly hauntingly familiar. In “The Cemetery for Lost Faces,” two orphans translate their grief into taxidermy, artfully arresting the passage of time. The anchoring novella, “The Unfinished World,” unfurls a surprising love story between a free and adventurous young woman and a dashing filmmaker burdened by a mysterious family. Sparks’s stories—populated with sculptors, librarians, astronauts, and warriors—form a veritable cabinet of curiosities. Mythical, bizarre, and deeply moving, The Unfinished World and Other Stories heralds the arrival of a major writer and illuminates the search for a brief encounter with the extraordinary.

Sassy Macey Malloy and Wikket, her grumpy cat, first appeared in the goofy thriller and fun romance TAKE THE BODY AND RUN. The Kindle Scout winner is about a hunted woman, a handsome lawman, a fart machine-will travel, and a crime-solving cat. "TAKE THE BODY AND RUN is a fast-paced ride with a sparkling character and written in a new, original voice. This is a don't-miss debut." -Carolyn Haines, USA Today bestselling author of Pluto's Snitch and Sarah Booth Delaney Cat Scratch Fever and Other Stories includes the full set of Macey Malloy short stories, but the full-length books are sold separately. The series is fun to read in any order. If you want to read them in their timeline, they're listed below in chronological order. #0 - Prequel: "Two Tickets to Paradise" Macey risks her life when she's embroiled in a brutal murder and meets her feline, crime-solving partner. #1 - Take the Body and Run (sold separately) The Kindle Scout winner is a "goofy thriller" about a hunted woman, a handsome lawman, a death doctor with fart machine-will travel, and a crime-solving cat. #2 - Take a Walk on the Dead Side (sold separately) Macey and Wikket, her cantankerous cat with a nose for crime, plunge headlong into danger when a stalker targets an innocent college student. Terrified for the girl, Macey tries to help her, only to be trapped in the web of deceit with tangled links to missing women. #3 - Short Story (takes place after book #2): "What the Cat Dragged In" Macey and her nose-for-crime cat suspect evildoing close to home. #4 - Novelette (takes place after "What the Cat Dragged In"): "Cat Scratch Fever" A troubled student falls to her death. Macey, with the help of her crime-solving cat, investigates. Is she needlessly distressing the grieving parents and enraging the dead girl's friends . . . or is she on the trail of a killer intent on getting away with murder? #5 - Novelette (takes place after "Cat Scratch Fever"): "Gone Cat" Macey is frantic with worry when Wikket, the supersized cat with a propensity for trouble, vanishes. Macey enlists her friends' help, but will it be enough?

What development coordinator Felicia DuBois at the Southern California Cat Sanctuary needs: Sex with something other than her vibrator. Gender and number of participants optional.What Felicia doesn't need: Someone sabotaging the make-or-break benefit that could mean the future of the sanctuary. She especially doesn't need ultra-sexy Gabe Sullivan from the Zoological Association sniffing around, wielding the authority to close the cash-strapped exotic cat breeding facility.But damn his smoking hotness!Felicia's in a race against time to find both sexual fulfillment and the saboteur before the Sanctuary's future becomes as endangered as the felines it houses.

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