Last week on Montrose and Magnolia I noticed a flyer for a missing cat named Brutus, and this afternoon in a vacant lot I think I found him: big and black, with ragged ears. He was dead, and frozen solid. I called the number on the flyer and told the woman who answered where she could find the body. “I hope I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure it’s Brutus,” I said. She asked if the dead cat had nappy ears and I said yes. What I didn’t say was that I think the body had been kicked up and down the street. It was scuffed, and a lot of the fur had been worn away. The woman sounded very distressed on the
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