FERAL
a NOVELLA
by JOHN ASHLEY
He’s a bad kitty…
Since the Ice Age, Ammit’s mission on earth has always been the same: to possess wild beasts and turn them into mankillers. But when he mistakenly chooses an arthritic old housecat named Purcell Hounsfield as his next vessel of violence, fulfilling this unholy obligation becomes more challenging than ever before.
Cooper Hounsfield is a recent widower with not many friends left in the world. His beloved Calico cat is one of the few. Except Purcell hasn’t been acting himself lately. There’s a strange new gleam in his yellow eyes. And, preposterous as it sounds, Cooper’s starting to suspect that his cat is trying to kill him…