We Named Our Cat Dysthymia

by Angeline Schellenberg

She was the only one who ran in our family. Like Grandpa, Dad was allergic. In bed for days. The rest of us, just lazy, I guess. It didn’t help that she wrapped our arms in string. Even after we despised this house down to its drapes, we couldn’t leave.

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Angeline Schellenberg is a spiritual director, the author of Tell Them It Was Mozart, Fields of Light and Stone, and Mondegreen Riffs (2024), and host of Winnipeg’s Speaking Crow open mic. Visit her here.