She moved with the sinuous grace of a dancer or a thief; sleek and deadly. Her eyes were wide, feigning innocence. Hiding secrets… She licked her lips, as if she liked the taste of blood.
The crime scene didn’t faze her, yet it was the worst I had ever seen. In my job, you see things you don’t want to remember.
He’d been cornered, caught in a dead end, a trap with no way out.
Blood spattered high up the walls. Gobbets of rent flesh clung to the paintwork. Dismembered life festered in scarlet pools on the pale carpet. The only thing she’d left intact was a foot, just one.
God knows what she’d done with the rest of him…
He must have struggled… fought back… the violence of the attack, the carnage…sickening.
This wasn’t just murder. This was slaughter.
I was glad I’d only had coffee. The clean-up was going to take some time…
I picked up the severed foot and bagged it. She didn’t even flinch.
I couldn’t work her out.
It wasn’t the first time we had faced each other over a corpse. How many had she killed? And why? She was young, beautiful… lacked for nothing. From the jewelled collar to the fur, this girl had it all.
She was guilty as sin.
And she was going to walk free…
…leaving me with another corpse to dispose of…
I’ve really gone off that cat…
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Haha! Sometimes it’s like that with a cat!
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Every day?? So glad she’s not mine… I’m just her hired help…
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Like I said before.. . So glad Sonu is only an indoor cat!!!
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It was horrible…good job I’m not squeamish, but even so….
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Not sure I could have done it!!
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I didn’t have a choice… and all that blood on a cream carpet too… and sprayed right up the walls. Poor pigeon. They mate for life too…
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That is really sad…
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Yes, it really is.
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Enjoyed that.
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Do you want the dustpan and scrubbing brush? 😉
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Well… 😉
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Beyond fabulous! I’m still laughing.
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I’m still shuddering at the thought of what she’ll have done overnight… it is every morning at the moment….
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Oh my sorry you have to do the clean up that can be messy! I do sympathize with you. I have five cats and two are prolific hunters. Thankfully I only have to chase the live “offerings” around the house catch them and set them free. Of course that earns me a totally disgusted look from the feline provider.
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I think I would prefer that… these mangled corpses are getting too much.
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Sorry but it is the cat’s way especially if she is semi feral.
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Love it! Juliet
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Thanks, Juliet 🙂
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Brilliant Sue.
xxx Hugs Galore xxx
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Hugs, David! xxx
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Makes me so glad that mine is a gentleman. He brings things home for company, I swear!
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I wish Nick’s was…
Thanks, Jaye x
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Thanks, Steve x
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Oh my!! I thought “Sue’s gone dark” until the last line 🤗
My dads cat does this. Brings in half of things…. mice, bats, lizards. Ew.
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More than ‘ew’…. 😦
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Feline noir…wonderful !
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Thanks, Van 🙂
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Brilliant, Sue. So far our little black cat, adopted a few weeks ago, has not demonstrated her hunting skills. This morning, though, she had hysterics when a bluebottle flew into the kitchen while she was having breakfast. She was terrified, abandoned her food and ran upstairs. We could hear her crashing around, knocking things over then haring back downstairs and hiding in the sitting room. She wasn’t evcen chasing the fly, it was still buzzing in the kitchen.
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Bless her… not a hunter then…hopefully!
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Haha. Typically if there is a murder in our house there is little carnage, just the corpse to dispose of. Claudius, however, used to meow pitifully until I removed the body. If I waited too long (because i didn’t realize there was a body), he’d get mad and crunch it up, making a huge mess…
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I’ve dealt with a lot of her corpses, but this one was horrendous….
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Loved it!
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You wouldn’t have, had you seen the mess….
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I’ve seen my fair share here… Just tonight, I found a dead mouse in the basement and a living flying squirrel, which brought on quite the hunt. It is now safely relocated in the town forest and Dave has a minor flesh wound. ❤
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That’s more than enough of a share 😉
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You sure, because you never know what tomorrow will bring around here… 😉
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Or here… 😉 x
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A good one Sue!
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Sadly, a true tale, Penny…
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Now that’s funny, Sue. Great twist at the end. Something tells me she “will” kill again with no remorse. I think I know what happened to the rest of the victim. 😀 — Suzanne
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I have a feeling I know too…. I just wish she’d done a better job of the disposal….
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Like it! My cat was the other way, totally fastidious in her presention of her kill, no mess, no blood.
Maybe she didn’t like the sight of it herself!
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This one seems to revel in it…
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I love this, Sue. xxx
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Bet the poor pigeon didn’t… xxx
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No but let’s hope it went to pigeon heaven. At the moment our cherry tree is designated as such. They are quite happy sitting on the branches and munching the cherries. Dante doesn’t phase them either. xxx
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I’d join them if there are cherries…. 😉 xx
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❤ you'd be most welcome.
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One of these days 😉 xx
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Kitty Noir … the latest murder/mystery sub genre 🙂 … I think you have a hit here! 😀
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Kitty is a hit-squad unto herself…
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Loved this Sue! 🙂 xx
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🙂 xx
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Loved it!
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😀
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I was reading this and thinking “Sue never writes dark, violent stuff like this. What happened to her? Who wrote this and what did they do with Sue!?” Then, I got to the fur and collar. “Ani isn’t a killer,” I thought. “What’s going on?” CAT! Ha ha ha. My cat’s been delivering dead bodies to me all week.
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Bodies I can cope with…but scrubbing the blood stains six feet up the wall and the pools on the carpet…too much….
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We just have little piles of innards that we step on by mistake. Ugh.
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That may be even worse….
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When barefoot at night, it’s horrifying.
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Slugs are bad enough….
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LOL
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Brilliant Punchline! What a short story!
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More reporting than storytelling, Paul…
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Absolutely fell for that! Loved it !!
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Sadly, a true story…
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This is your son’s new lodger…..
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It is…
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Hummmmm Ani did voice her suspicions to Ruby ❤️
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Ani does not care for cats…. ❤
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Nor does Ruby, she just ignores them!
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I wish Ani would 😉
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Ah but Ruby was brainwashed, I mean trained to ignored 💗
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I tried that… Setters don’t brainwash easily 😉
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No, Ruby was brainwashed from birth not by us I hasten to add. 💜
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It would have been helpful if Ani had been too…
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Yes I know but there is a down side she actually rules us in a gentle way.🙃💗💜
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Mine is fairly blatant about who is in charge 😉
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Yes I can see that but Ruby is definitely the boss here to but extremely subtlely
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🙂
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💗🌹
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Oh ,I love the way you have written this, Sue, sending us off track, until the big surprise at the end!!! 🙂
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Kitty fatale…. 😉
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🤣🤣🤣🤣
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