Fup. Store Cat.

Chapter 124

In Loving Memory
Fup. Store Cat.
1988 — 2007

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Bear

Zooey

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Another Labor Day, and one more summer gone by. Fup's feelings can be summed up in a single word: "Drats."

"Drats?" Bear asks.

So she said it out loud without realizing. Probably everyone does that more often as they age. Or maybe it's just that sitting with Bear is almost like sitting alone. She means that in the best possible way.

"Drats," Fup repeats, "as in, I'm not ready for summer to end."

Bear's eyes find a neutral space in the bookstore, neither here nor there. Fup can see his brain turning over rocks, finding nothing underneath. He says, "What are drats?"

She'd never thought about it. What are they? "I have no idea," she admits.

"Then why did you say it?"

"Because it means what I wanted to say."

"You know what drats means, but you don't know what drats are?"

Fup explains, "Summer's over, is all, and I've got a case of the drats."

"How many come in a case?"

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Fup's Picks

That Cat That Changed My Life: 50 Cats Talk About How They Became Who They Are
by Bruce Eric Kaplan

"All these cats lead exciting and varied lives wholly independent of the human race," notes the editor in his Introduction. Well, duh. Scant attention has been paid to the role of community in modern cat culture, so what a relief that here, finally, fifty articulate felines set the record straight. Funny, sad, occasionally shocking, but never less than true, these brave monologues reaffirm our interdependency in ways that choreographed public displays such as Paws Across America never can.

Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs
by Amy Hempel

In "Dog Kibble," Tasha Baxter's verse exhibits a brutal economy of words: "Life is never meaningless," her villanelle announces, "there is always food." Here and throughout this collection these authors demand your attention, as if to bark, "You can send me to my room for yelling at the neighbors but you cannot silence what woofs in my heart!" Among the selections nominated for Best American Writing by Pets 2000 are Bob Barker Barry's sordid and hilarious hallucinogenic escapades with Lynda; a tragic, posthumous prose poem by Marrow Irving; and Sadie Louise Lamott's "Spoon River Sadie Louise," a wildly metered exploration of the cross-cultural dynamics within a household occupied by dogs, cats, birds, and small children. The sheer intellect of these collected pieces will renew your faith in dogs.

Is Your Cat Too Fat?
by Bronwen Meredith

Too fat for what? And what business is it of this Meredith person's anyway? Bronwen sounds like the kind of lady I wouldn't like at all.

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