Short Story: An Encounter

She was dusting the antiques and mending the shop while her grandfather was out when it happened. A midnight black cat waltzed into the shop through the open door. It blinked its eyes and stared at her. She let the feather duster drop by her side as she countered the stare. She had worked long enough with her grandfather to separate normal from abnormal. Her grandfather could bend stories and people’s lives through them, and she… she was learning the family trade.

She turned around and went b...