Title: I Feel So Alive
Author: R. Tom Mato
Rating: G
Summary: Why the Cat lived for so long after being locked away.
Notes: Challenge #1: seasons for the 100Fruit community on Livejournal. I'd been rewriting this for about an hour trying to get 100 words, muttering 'drabbles are evil' over and over. Then I just wrote a bit, copied the last line in from a different draft, and it fit when I counted it up. The previous cat is my favorite character, though sadly there's not enough about him out there.
Notes2: Ah, title from the song by Nina Gordon. Good song. "Tonight and the Rest of My Life."
It's been...five years since I was put in this cage. I know because the world was being reborn as I was put to 'death.' The zodiac wonder how long I can live like this; I hear them placing bets on when my spirit will finally rot.
They don't know what keeps me strong through the terrible winters. Only one thing gives me hope and he runs past my window every day once the snow melts to go play.
My son can live, and for that I can live. As he laughs in the soft sunshine, I too can laugh.
