Yarn

For the A-to-Z Blogging Challenge this year, I’m posting a 100 word piece of flash fiction every day. It might be a self-contained story, or a scene–whatever, it’ll be fiction, and it’ll be over in a flash! Today’s story is…

Yarn

Jethro’s mistress was busy with her knitting, so he pawed a ball of yarn from her basket. It fell to the floor and started to roll. His ears twitched. He gave chase.

The old lady shook her head and smiled.

Jethro loosened the end with his claws. The ball trundled along the floor, unraveling. The cat pounced; the ball shot away, long cords of yarn drifting down. He pounced again, a strange urgency in his eyes.

He may not have understood mistress’s threat to cut her brother from her will. But he knew where the man hid her heart medicine…

Check back tomorrow for the last day of the A-to-Z Challenge: Z…