The crash of the plate on the kitchen tile startled him so badly that the TV dinner slipped from his grip and dropped onto his pants. Salisbury steak and macaroni and cheese spilled onto his trousers. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTHW6tNbGU9
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM0RghBPijq
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfss7Gc1Ug
Jack cursed and bolted up into an unsure standing position. He grabbed his napkin and did the best he could to wipe the gravy and yellow cheese sauce off of his legs. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7DUExHxMA
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhvn6PHmXBg
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVSQmQDqO0F
He hurried into the kitchen to see what had made the noise that had so rudely disturbed his peace. One of his green dinner plates had fallen off the drying rack and shattered into a hundred pieces. How the devil did that happen?866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOGdwdOrbRc
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERXXX4nSda
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf5fjhNtd6O
This was not a fine way to start his night. Priorities he thought to himself. He took his pants off right there in his kitchen. Inappropriate? Perhaps, but he needed to get them in the wash at once before the gravy and cheese sat in and stained them. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3vUUc9duJP
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaaj9Qd3Yqo
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJAZc4OJtZF
Folding them over his arm he walked into his laundry room and threw them in the washer. He carefully measured out the proper amount of detergent and added a capful of a stain fighting formula he had picked up at the grocery store the month prior. He then turned on the washer and let it run. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHd937qgh7x
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEzoLvj19e1
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOoHFIqPeKu
Muttering under his breath, he made his way back to the kitchen and the broken plate. It was very unlike him to put a plate, or any dish for that matter, onto the drying rack improperly. Normally he was a very careful man. Being careful had kept his little secret for the last thirty years. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlw8Y9JmnLb
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoe8CModOpp
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu3PGH4rjZL
His little secret being his affinity for killing cats, of course. One cat a week. At least. If there was a way to take the life from them he had done it. He had sliced them. He had diced them. He had bludgeoned them. He had strangled them. He had electrified them. He had burned them. He had skinned them. He had dismembered them. He had buried them alive. He had drowned them. He had injected them with various household chemicals that acted as poisons. He had practiced Accupuncture on them. He had even put one in the microwave. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOdbdA7MIi
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwoRfhI3T3P
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqgvhvtHUl
If there was a way to kill a cat Jack had more than likely tried it. But his favorite way was a good, old fashioned strangling. Was there anything better than choking the life out of a stray? Not that Jack had found. A malicious little grin washed over his face as he thought of all the felines that he had rid the world of over the years. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhPuNsvDrCD
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV29NmyI3dk
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvm4GOukmG
It all started when he was ten. His aunt had brought her pet cat, Cleopatra, with her during her Thanksgiving holiday stop at their house. Cleopatra acted like she owned the place.866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkcOrRpxQch
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqemwWnzrn
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTywXbAH78
The filthy little creature lurked about the house and scratched on things that she wasn't supposed to. She pooped in the bark o mulch near the rhododendrons. She jumped up on the counter and ate right from the turkey. Oh how his father had fussed and fidgeted when the worthless animal did that. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYWrM637N7Q
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW29en3ofds
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYaIVAQxpB
The final straw for Jack was when he went into his bedroom and found Cleopatra chewing and scratching on his favorite knit stocking cap. The one with the long tassels that his mother has worked so hard on. The mischievous creature had frayed it beyond repair. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3RuljyCzfv
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2BomcQVvR
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTzOdEIGncc
Young Jack shut his bedroom door and grabbed the Cleopatra by the back of her neck. He then began twisting until her neck snapped. The cat fought back. It had scratched his arms while he was twisting. Jack found the struggle exhilarating. He felt truly alive after the cat went limp. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9AU2d13HFj
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVBrwoRVrC
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnLCD0kbKP
Yes his arms burned and itched from the scratches, but what a small price to pay it was for that blissful feeling of exhilaration. A small price to pay indeed. He wore long sleeves, so that his parents wouldn't see the scratches. He stuffed Cleopatra into his backpack and told his parents that he was going on a nature hike to fight the boredom of the holiday. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4yt2emYvh0
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOPiU50V0sk
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWz8TLp51E
Cleopatra’s final resting place was a shallow hole in the woods that sat behind the park that was a few blocks from his home. He pleasures himself on the cat’s grave before he left it there to rot. It was a ritual he competed after every kill from then on out. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡga5lJO6wyb
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡohUcHtBUKj
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7wgtzXx6Ib
When the next morning arrived Jack’s aunt was very distraught over the disappearance of Cleopatra. She accused Jack’s father of doing something with her precious feline and Jack’s mother and father asked her to leave not long after that. It was the last time he saw his aunt. She always brought him poor excuses for gifts during Christmas anyways, so never seeing her again wasn't much of a loss. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGlkaw7e2XU
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3g2hcRx3tq
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd2unQC1nO4
Since he didn't have any aunts to bring him cats to “play” with anymore, Jack took to the streets to find new feline friends. They were everywhere. He relieved his neighbors of the burdens of caring for their cats. He found and erased every stray in his suburb. And he was careful, so he had never been caught. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTD44G86QQ
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOUQh7kPlui
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzjSY1utuG
He was a very careful man. And that is why his putting the plate on the drying rack improperly made no sense to him. In fact, he distinctly remembered putting the plate on the rack and double checking its position after he washed the remnants of his bacon and eggs from it. It made no sense at all. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Yos5rHuPf
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiJSoRmnCR
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZzQNRQcGZ
The broom he grabbed from his pantry had barely touched the broken plate when the long, drawn out yowl. Jack turned his head this way and that to try. There was a cat in his kitchen. Jack smiled. He knew he hadn't put the dish in danger of falling. It must have been the cat that did it. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh667psvwu5
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHTBji9sczJ
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh4YHRNvgl2
The cat must have slipped in the door while Jack had opened it after he heard the knocking, he figured. Jack rose from his kneeling position and sat his broom and dustpan aside. The plate could wait. There was a filthy creature roaming free in his kitchen and it had to be dealt with. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WzscJYMdD
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIzr3xrJXJf
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgGXnt401pq
“Here, kitty kitty,” Jack said gently, as he tried to coax the cat out from its hiding space. He walked slowly to his cooking utensil drawer. He pulled the out a meat tenderizing hammer that he had bought at a kitchen store sometime last year. He hadn't used it on a cat yet. It would be his trick and his treat for this Halloween.866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCe3IlM8ro
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh3loyL3HQv
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZMvKxpcsE
After searching every nook and cranny in the kitchen, Jack seemed puzzled that he couldn't find the feline invader. Then he heard a chewing and smacking sound from his living room. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6whNzsr8xW
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUGZkqrh5X2
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqyF6xwlZW
Carefully stepping around the broken plate, he slowly and quietly walked from the kitchen and peered into the living room. His comfy recliner blocked his view, but he could hear the sounds coming from the other side. Where he had spilled his Hungry Man dinner. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDkrR2wgPuL
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMn9qe3p8BJ
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2kkhvxVwbJ
As he quietly made his way to get a better view of what was on the other side of the chair. There, in front of his wonderfully comfortable recliner, was a black cat savagely gnawing the Salisbury steak that had tumbled from the black plastic tray. He watched as it licked the gravy and cheese that sat staining his carpet. Oh the scrubbing it would take to get that stain off.866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCh72Tp7Yv
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaffzaaI6b0
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ77Hf2Dwe3o
The scrubbing wasn't something that Jack was looking forward to. The thought of it irritated him. He had spent a long, hard day at work and now he had to get on his hands and knees to scrub for who knew how long. This cat would pay dearly for this inconvenience.866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNEoMW39CdF
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYoHBta6G9
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4zA41EOGP
He took a soft step towards the cat. A howl of warning emitted from the creature and Jack stopped and smiled. This one had spirit. He took another step towards the black beast and the warning yowl turned into a vicious hiss. The cat bunched itself up and turned towards Jack.866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfMEXVVsHN
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgRB8K5xic
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNg1ICGA6y5
Looking straight into Jack’s brown eyes with his golden ones, the cat hissed again and bared it’s teeth. It's fur was standing up on end. It was ready for a fight. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXhkLxR0Pml
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGIX7GITGzX
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPkKidCG3oJ
Jack gripped the meat tenderizing hammer and leaned slowly down towards his prey. As he was leaning down with such bad intentions Jack noticed something curious about the mouser.866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLj9cyUHHrN
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEBK2wFlgaJ
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJm4IYejTQG
The cat that he had strangled the life out of the previous night had one wispy little patch of white right under it’s chin, which made it look somewhat like a soul patch. It stuck Jack as funny as his hands tightened around the creatures neck the night before because he thought to himself that it looked like he was choking a tiny hipster. He had actually started laughing about the thought of him killing a soul patch wearing hipster right there in his kitchen.866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwAvLixCxog
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixprrB2CaI
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl8GupLNKTh
Oddly enough, this cat had the very same white soul patch. The rest of it’s body was completely black save for that little triangular white patch of hair. Could it have been the same cat? It was a very odd coincidence. Or was it a coincidence at all? Perhaps this was the same cat. Perhaps, just perhaps, Jack hadn't finished the job last night. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaPKIBeclwQ
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvjJXBw9gEV
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRfVfnw514
No. That was inconceivable. When Jack tossed last night’s cat into the trash that morning it had been stiff as a board. This must have been one of it’s offspring. Unneutered cats were the gift that kept on giving. 866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUAFRwmlVy
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUj33N3qFEM
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcYsTchDrJ
Raising the hammer into the air a snail’s pace, Jack muttered, “Here, kitty kitty. Good kitty. He still now.”866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnOq8igCbKK
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXtktK2AV0T
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ56pl5u6C9J
The cat’s eyes narrowed. It hissed once again and then lunged forward.866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlmSU61rGY
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkGxmmSnk7D
866Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4Md1gNY8C
Before Jack could react the cat was on his face scratching and biting. Jack screamed out as he dropped the hammer, gripped the cat in both hands and flung it across the room. The cat made a horrid sound as it landed with a thud. There was a commotion for a moment and then the cat sprinted into the hallway and out of sight.
