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The Cat Who Ate the End of the World
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781971434032
Publisher: Kysa Steele
Published: Mar 21 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Mungus ate the end of the world. It tasted like chicken.
When Claire Pemberton's cat consumes a cosmic artifact that was supposed to be her thesis paperweight, she expects some digestive complications. She does not expect fish showers over London, traffic lights speaking ancient Sumerian, or a government committee determined to take her cat away for containment.
Now Claire-an anxiety-ridden graduate student whose entire field nobody takes seriously-must navigate emergency bureaucracy, face down hostile treasury officials, and prove that love isn't a weakness in cosmic entity management. It's the only thing that works.
Her allies include a demon named Harold who considers paperwork a form of devotion, a government agent whose cat is learning to purr at pipes, and a professor who just discovered his thirty years of theoretical research are terrifyingly real. Her opposition includes a man who views kindness as a budget line item to be eliminated.
The committee votes. The containment order stands. And Mungus walks into a cage to protect the person he loves.
But Claire isn't done fighting.
The Cat Who Ate The End Of The World is a cozy fantasy novella about trust, bureaucratic absurdity, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones who matter. It features:
- A cosmic cat who thinks in italics about food lady
- A demon with an enthusiasm for proper documentation
- Fish showers, prophetic hamsters, and a missing Tuesday
- Found family forged through crisis
- The question of whether love is a sufficient basis for managing existential threats (it is)
Standalone novella. No cliffhangers. Contains one (1) deeply objectionable can of diet tuna.
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