See, Ey, Tea: Cat

 

 

 

SEE, EY, TEA: CAT

 

 

Dunya found me wandering by the pavement. I wasn't really crying. It's what she thought once she heard me calling out for mother. This misunderstanding was delicious though. It left me a few shreds of cooked chicken on the gravel.

 

  After that we became friends. Dunya was unlike any other human-litter, to be honest. She brought red and yellow wool strings from her home everyday and swept them across the ground. Once I had my lethal claws on the strings, she would pull them away. I wondered why. Dunya never spoke to me in a harsh tone or yelled or shooed me from my shaded spot. And she never tried to yank my tail or toss stones at me.

 

  When I bragged to the orphaned kitten sisters that Dunya had called me the name: Hilwa, they warned me about human trickery. One day, the kittens said, she might take a helpless kitten like me away and lock me inside her den to be eaten by her sinister siblings.

 

  I was not afraid, because friends should trust one another. So, I waited for her in the orange sunlight once I heard the quickening sound of her shoes across the street. She held a strange blue item with bells that rang. And it spun in the air and fell further when the huge monster with wheels and a growling sound hit Dunya.

 

  She fell asleep on the gravel and many grief-smelling human adults and their fear-smelling litter came and went and then moved her away.

 

  My mother told me that Dunya would not smell of vanilla biscuits and kindness anymore.

 

  I wondered how long it takes for humans to return from death.

Author's Note

*Hilwa حلوة: The cat's name given by the girl actually means: the 'sweet one' in Arabic.
*Dunya دنيا : Literally means 'life' or 'the first world we live in before death'

Reviews

[Marie]

What a beautiful, tragic story. It was very short, and said so much.

[YouoweYoupay]

Thank you. Tragdey sometimes teaches us to be more grateful and life the moment. Thank you for stopping by. : )

-Rain.

[InsanityWriter]

Such a sad, bittersweet story... I love how their names hold greater meaning, and that you tole it from thee cat's perspective. Your storytelling is absolutely beautiful. :)

[YouoweYoupay]

Thank you so much. It was a good challenge to accept, trying to see things from a furryball's point of view. I appreciate the encouraging comments. I'm glad you stopped by. : )

-Rain.

[InsanityWriter]

It was a pleasure. :)