Cats in Command and Other Stories

by C. M. Barrett

Overview

The author of the series, A Dragon's Guide to Destiny, which includes Big Dragons Don't Cry, Dance with Clouds, House of the Moon, and Book of Sorrows, presents a collection of short stories whose themes are satirical, occasionally serious, and never sentimental.

Cats in Command: The situation is more serious than you may suspect.

Villains Victorious: The villains attempt to rewrite the story.

The Language of Stones: He decides to teach a stone how to speak. Good luck.

Gargoyle in Love: He's not just an ugly face.

Tarasque: After she's orphaned by murderous humans, not even a saint can convince this dragon that she's a sinner.

Big Dragons Don't Cry, Chapter 1: A royal cat, looking for a suitable mate, doesn't expect to fall in love with a feisty alley cat.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940032957676
Publisher:	C. M. Barrett
Publication date:	12/09/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	922,304
File size:	167 KB

About the Author

On my mother's side of the family, I come from a line of storytellers. My grandmother's stories ranged from my grandfather's arrest for draft resistance in England during World War I, the uncertainty of life during the Troubles in Ireland, to the day she decided to leave her marriage (but didn't). My mother's stories described a rural childhood that to a child of a suburb of little boxes seemed idyllic. Both of them encouraged me to read and provided me with books to feed a growing habit. When I was seven or eight, I discovered mythology, and the gods and goddesses in those tales were as real to me as the dragons and cats in my own stories are now. Thanks to my early training in fantasy, I like to hang out with dragons. Accepting the bizarre directions my imagination takes has allowed me to conjure up Zen cats, cougars, gossip-vending hawks, and other critters. Currently I live in upstate New York on a wooded piece of land not unlike some of the terrain in Big Dragons Don't Cry. Since 2000 I've belonged to the online writers' group, Artistic License, subtitled Shameless Blameless Hussies. They've read all my books, but don't blame them if you find errors, because they're shameless. I also paint, and the art on my book cover is one of my watercolors.