The Black Cat Carnival

Shawn Ingram
ILLUMINATION
Published in
9 min readMar 26, 2024

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Maybe I should turn back. Ma will wonder where I got to.

Someone shouted my name. I stopped, turned, and looked but didn’t see anyone.

I should turn back.

But I want to see the cat again. If it weren’t for the cat, I would never have found the flyers for the carnival.

Where is my bike?

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Shawn Ingram
ILLUMINATION

Just a guy telling stories. One silver lining of the 2020 pandemic was I started writing!