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    Felinity
    Felinity
    Felinity
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    Felinity

    By Sammy HK Smith

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    Felinity, noun, plural fel-in-ities. 1. The quality of being cat-like. 2. A divine being, a cat.

    Grimbold Books is proud to present our first Kristell Inkling, a collection of feline inspired flash fiction stories written by authors from all around the world.

    This collection celebrates what we regard as the most important factor when writing: write foremost for pleasure. The stories showcased in this book are full of laughter, grit, odd contraptions and a lot of fur, with a loud purring nod to our beloved genres of science fiction and fantasy.

    From A.F.E Smith’s unique twist on Schrödinger’s cat, to Joel Cornah’s world-jumping old queen, from Clare Neilson’s steampunk creation to Tina Closser’s dragon fighting dreaming kitty, these alternate feline worlds are bound to delight sci fi/fantasy readers and cat lovers alike.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKristell Ink
    Release dateApr 26, 2014
    ISBN9781310630736
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      Felinity - Sammy HK Smith

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      Felinity

      Collected by Sammy H.K Smith

      Kristell Inklings Logo

      Kristell Inklings

      www.grimboldbooks.com

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Nein Lives – A.F.E Smith © 2013

      No Tears – C.N Lesley © 2013

      Payback – Rachael Brown © 2013

      Diamond of Earth – Paige Daniels © 2013

      Nine Lives Later – Christie Rampersad © 2013

      Animal – Dave Crosby © 2013

      Wild Cat – Jessica Frost © 2013

      Punky – Claire Neilson © 2013

      Catatonic – Brian Talgo © 2013

      The Bast Mafdet Transcript – Ian Richardson © 2013

      The Cat Mirror – Rob Bayliss © 2013

      Be A Good Kitty – Lance Cross © 2013

      Angelina – Elizabeth Hull © 2014

      Soul Cat – Joshua Cornah © 2013

      Soul Cat In The Dark – Joshua Cornah © 2013

      The Caterpillar of Catastrophe and The Catatonically Drunk Cat – Steven J. Guscott © 2014

      The Cat Lady – Victoria Robinson © 2013

      Pest Control – David Cohen © 2013

      Meowska Hears All – Honor Thompson © 2014

      Feline Blue – Sophie Tallis © 2013

      The Hunt – Will Macmillan-Jones © 2013

      Presumptions – Mary Dougherty © 2013

      The Best and Last Hiss – Elizabeth Hull © 2013

      Mourning Ritual – Mike Hargreaves © 2013

      The Secret Life of Walter Kitty – Tina Closser © 2013

      The Clockwork Cat Escapes – Kieran Mathers © 2013

      I am Still Here – Evelinn Enoksen © 2014

      The Door – Selina Carr © 2014

      One-Eye – Joel Cornah © 2014

      Illustrations by Evelinn Enoksen, Snow Wulf, Hazel Butler, Claire Hutt. A.F.E Smith, Joshua Cornah

      A CIP catalogue reference for this book is available from the British Library.

      ISBN 978-1496136862

      Kristell Inklings, an imprint of Grimbold Books

      4 Woodhall Drive

      Banbury

      Oxon, OX16 9TY

      United Kingdom

      ‘Felinity’

      1. The quality of being cat-like and divine.

      2. A divine being, a cat.

      1

      Preface

      These stories were originally written as entries for our first birthday competition. We knew we wanted to incorporate the fantastical feline form, and so our five hundred word flash fiction brief was born: science fiction, fantasy, and even a combination of both. We received so many high quality stories, the best of which made us smile, laugh, cry, and think.

      Our youngest author is just eleven years old, and her story Diamond of Earth reminds us how deep a child’s imagination goes. We loved her tale and the time she took to enter the competition.

      Contained herein are stories involving other worlds, feline overlords, shapeshifters, portals, immortality and more . . . 

      This collection celebrates the idea that writing should be fun and something enjoyed by all ages.

      Our competition winner, A.F.E Smith, penned the charming story ‘Nein Lives’, and so we open the book with her contribution.

      NeinLives

      Nein Lives, image by Evelinn Enoksen

      NEIN LIVES

      by A.F.E. Smith

      My name is Nein. I have had other names, but Nein will do for now.

      I sit with my attendant whilst he wrestles with the nature of reality. He thinks he owns me. I let him keep thinking that.

      Nein, Nein, he mutters, taking his glasses off and polishing them with vigour. I am convinced they are looking at this in the wrong way. How can this superposition represent what truly happens in the world?

      He is talking to me. I get up and stretch, then step delicately onto the desk. To start with his touch is absent-minded, but my claws kneading his sleeve recall him to a full sense of his obligations.

      I knew a man like you once before, I tell him as he runs his fingers down my spine in the way I like. He longed to know how birds and trees and tortoises came to be. How they could change to fit their surroundings. I showed him a mouse, and then he understood. The mouse was uniquely adapted to run away, and I was uniquely adapted to catch it.

      He frowns at me. He often frowns when I speak. All my attendants have been the same: so focused on the weighty questions in their minds that they fail to understand what is before their eyes. Perhaps that is what it means to be human.

      Did I ever tell you about the man with the apple tree? I ask, butting my head into the palm of his hand. He used to sit in its dappled shade every day, thinking about the laws that keep all of us moving

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