by Mardelle Fortier

Get me out of this dungeon.
Listen, Edgar, this is not
funny. You love to scare
readers and mess with
dead bodies.

For the plot, you wanted
someone to give away the
secret.

Next time, get somebody else.
Preferably, a human!
I don’t appreciate
being walled in with a corpse.

*The cat addresses Edgar Allan Poe.