{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"CatsCast 25: The Invention of a Cat","description":"August, 2024 Author: Carolina Valentine Narrator: Laura Pearlman Host: Laura Pearlman Audio Producer: Dave Robison This story is a CatsCast original. The Invention of a Cat by Carolina Valentine  The haunting had started at 2 a.m., and my local Joann didn\u2019t open until nine. I was in the parking lot at 8:30, and while several Joann employees passed by my car on the way to the doors, I kept scrolling on my phone, feigning disinterest, instead of begging to be let in early. Even after the night I\u2019d had, I wasn\u2019t going to be That Customer.              I focused my bloodshot eyes on the featured article in the Journal of Theoretical Witchcraft\u2014something about the potency of blood moon spells\u2014and checked once or twice on the spectral wound I\u2019d slathered in dubious Taint-Be-Gone and expired Neosporin. Despite the mustiness of the gauze wrapping I\u2019d found for it, the four claw-like marks probably wouldn\u2019t fester.             In theory. Which is what I did. Theory. Read 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":"