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 Following the purrrfection of Dog People R. M. Drake introduces Cat People.

When a cat is gone, it feels as though the world has misplaced a piece of its quiet magic. You look around and the rooms are the same, yet emptier in ways you can’t quite name. The sunbeam still warms the floor, but no body is there to claim it. The windowsill still waits, but its vigil is unanswered. What you’ve lost isn’t just fur and heartbeat—it’s the hush that padded softly beside your own life.

Grief seeps into small spaces: the hollow of your arm that no longer carries a warm weight, the stretch of silence that no longer softens into purr. It’s the absence of those wordless understandings—the way they knew when to touch you, when to leave you in your storms, when to curl into your joy as if it were theirs.

Love doesn’t know how to leave with them. It lingers stubbornly, like breath on glass, like a candle whose flame has gone out but whose smoke still threads the air. You keep reaching, out of habit, for something no longer there—and in that reaching, you realize: this love has nowhere to rest, and so it becomes part of you.

Cat People is a collection of stories, prose, and poems that honors the quiet magic of cats—their mystery, their affection given on their terms, and the way they choose us as their own. These pages hold the stillness, the slow trust, the glances that speak volumes, and the kind of love that doesn’t shout, but stays. It’s a reminder to notice the small moments, to cherish the gentlest bonds, and to understand that even the softest presence can leave the deepest mark. As you read, you’ll find yourself returning to that hush between heartbeats, where cats have always lived—with quiet affection, quiet wisdom, and a love that never really leaves.

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