{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"CatsCast 21 Preview: Kindly, Stop for Me","description":"December, 2023. Author: K. M. Veohongs Narrator: Dave Robison Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Dave Robison This story originally appeared inTranslunar Traveler's Lounge, February 2022 A content note: there is some death in this one. Kindly, Stop for Me by K.M. Veohongs I rise from my spot by the window in Room 126 of the Sunny Glades Home for Health and Rehabilitation. The sun set an hour ago, so it\u2019s no great loss. My front paws extend, claws out, before I shift my weight forward and kick out each hind leg. I don\u2019t have the range of motion I once did \u2014 everything creaks and clicks now \u2014 but since the moment I selected my first feline host, I found there is nothing quite so satisfying as a good stretch. I jump down and land on the tiled floor, hard. I wish they\u2019d carpet the rooms, but that\u2019s hardly sanitary, is it? The hop up onto the bed is more difficult still. We\u2019re in the hospice wing, of course, and these beds are tall. I\u2019ve still got the ups to make it, but it\u2019s a near thing. Finding a replacement body should be on the top of my to-do list. This one is rather past its natural expiration date, and if I don\u2019t find a new host before it gives out completely, I\u2019ll be as rudderless as the souls I\u2019m supposed to help. It\u2019s only that I\u2019m rather attached to the form I\u2019m currently inhabiting. I\u2019ve been Archimedes for so long now, I\u2019m not sure I remember how to be anyone else. Read (or listen to) the rest on Patreon. Visit us at https:\/\/escapeartists.net\/catscast\/. Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives International 4.0 license. ","author_name":"CatsCast","author_url":"https:\/\/escapeartists.net\/catscast","html":"