I, MAXIMUS: A Cat Tale

I have written about Maximus, a kitten Daddy, & I, tried to rescue from the street, when we lived in the Lincoln Park area of Pomona, Ca., from Summer 2001 to early 2003..

We shared the good times, and the sad.

I'm an Indoor Cat, and am Content to Remain So!

The Origin Story, and the sad ending, called The Choice = MAXIMUS: A Feral Feline I Once Knew

Anyway, in the year or so that followed there came a moment when creative inspiration occurred when thinking of ol' Maximus one day.

This is that beginning of a story idea...

I, MAXIMUS...

In the year 2050 the Leaders of Mankind are secure in the belief that the Last Cat on Earth had been eradicated 20 years before.

After all, hadn't their nemesis, and  his 3 younger, female, feline companions, died, cornered in a warehouse fire, in Pomona, Ca.?

The event had been broadcast worldwide on all TV venues, and the Internet, the building surrounded, and there was no escape.

The Last Cats on Earth were no more, and a plague that had ravaged the 2 favorite domestic Animal Companions of mankind, had finally ended, decided in the favor of the Dog as the species to be saved, in a decision that had more to do with economics than true love...at least among the politicians.

I, Maximus, the last of the Ancient Ones left, am recording my story for future generations of a new, immune, species of Feline, now in their Kittenhood, and growing in numbers by the week, and their loving human companions.

They will soon make their pressence known to the world at large, and the future of all on this planet will be changed forever.

It is a dark, and stormy night, as I sit here in the underground shelter of the home of the only human that I have ever truly loved.

I am Maximus, the last of the Ancient Ones to survive, and I want to share with you, dear reader, a tale of survival....

So... what do you think?

A story worth trying to expand upon? ;-D

Comments

[Everycat]

Yes, definately.

But, Nikita, it's gonna have to be a rip roaring adventure where despite being wiped out, somehow the feline is triumphant - anything else just makes me shudder - it's a kinda dark tale you are proposing...

*snuggles down hard in felinus blanky*

Wuudler

[Lee County Clowder]

Worth expanding? Yeah, we think so.

But please: "It is a dark, and stormy night"?

Every time we hear that, we think of an old Peanuts cartoon, with Snoopy on his doghouse with a typewriter.

[Nikita Cat]

LOL!

But Lee, the line is NOT the opening sentence, and I use "is", and not "was" as that Edward Human, and that silly Mutt did. ;-D

I'm much too smart to do something that bad! ;-D

[Kim Bussey]

Oh, I really liked it.

Yes, you must continue.

I want to know why the world had to pick between pets and how Maximus survived.

[Dana]

Sounds very interesting and unlike anything I have read.

I think you should work more on this to expand it.