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"That night the thistledown gray cat climbed onto her windowsill, eyes gleaming out of the shadows. She lay very still in bed frightened don’t suck my breath away! don’t! and after a long pause she heard a low hoarse-vibrating sound, a comforting sound like sleep, and it was the thistledown gray cat purring. So she knew she was safe, and she knew she would sleep. And she did.
Waking in the morning to Mommy’s screams. Screaming and screaming her voice rising like something scrambling up the side of a wall. Screaming except now awake Jessica was hearing jays’ cries close outside her window in the pines where there was a colony of jays and where if something disturbed them they shrieked and flew in quick darting swoops flapping their wings to protect themselves and their young.
The thistledown gray cat trotting behind the house, tail stiffly erect, head high, a struggling blue-feathered bird gripped between his strong jaws."



Мама, папа и их десятилетняя дочь Джессика жили счастливо, пока не родился второй ребенок. Согласно худшему сценарию, Джессика почувствовала себя обделенной любовью и вниманием и стала ревновать. А тут еще крутился под ногами странный серый кот. В общем, этот страшный рассказ написан в лучших традициях хоррора.
У Оутс есть целый сборник мистически-ужасных рассказов о кошках под названием "Twists of the Tale".

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