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items: Shady Cat and the Shiny Ball
items: Shady Cat Can’t Can
items: HOWLED the WebComic
items: Sun Dog Howled(14y+)
items: Shady Cat and Isabelle
items: Entropy Short part 2
items: Entropy Short
items: Shady Cat goes to a Party
items: Shady Cat and Spiky Mouse
items: Shady Cat and the Lost Fish

Shady Cat and the Shiny Ball
type: item
creator: joshua mcdermott
date: 2020-11-20T22:25:41Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: Shady Cat and the Shiny Ball The wind pushed at the tree and Shady Cat was up late chasing shadows. One in particular was quick and lively, flicking through the grass, jumping potted plants, racing over rock and earth So fast was the shadow that Shady Cat had to run faster and jump higher than … Continue reading "Shady Cat and the Shiny Ball"
encoded: Shady Cat and the Shiny Ball The wind pushed at the tree and Shady Cat was up late chasing shadows. One in particular was quick and lively, flicking through the grass, jumping potted plants, racing over rock and earth So fast was the shadow that Shady Cat had to run faster and jump higher than as she ever had in her whole life Two times she caught it! Then a third! But every time it slipped through her paws! Finally it raced up a very tall tree. The tree was so tall it, was taller than all the houses. Shady Cat did not wait but ran right up the tree. Shady Cats are very good climbers, and not afraid of heights at all. The tree was not only tall, it had a hundred branches and a thousand leaves. So full was it that Shady Cal lost the shadow, but at the very top found a bright shiny ball! It looked so fun she swatted at it until it fell in the branches. She swatted it again and it rolled from branch to branch, bouncing and dancing its way down the tree! All round thousands upon thousands upon thousands of shadows flickers across the world while Shady Cat chewed happily on the moon. THE END

Shady Cat Can’t Can
type: item
creator: joshua mcdermott
date: 2020-11-19T18:29:18Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: Shady Cat Can’t Can Shady Cat woke up hungry So she went to the kitchen and cried for food But no food came…the house was empty, and so was her poor stomach! Shady Cat did not give up. She jumped up onto the counters searching for food where sometimes it was left “Ahah!” she cried, … Continue reading "Shady Cat Can’t Can"
encoded: Shady Cat Can’t Can Shady Cat woke up hungry So she went to the kitchen and cried for food But no food came…the house was empty, and so was her poor stomach! Shady Cat did not give up. She jumped up onto the counters searching for food where sometimes it was left “Ahah!” she cried, “A can of cat food!” But the can was closed tight. Shady cat scratched at it. She threw it off the counter to the floor. She threw it against the wall. She threw it outside down the stairs and jumped on it and bit it. She rolled it about and pounced, clubbing it with her paw. Shady cat was starting to have fun! But her stomach still growled with hunger And the can was not opening. But Shady Cats are clever and she knew what to do. She took the can in her mouth, carrying it like a kitten, to the sidewalk outside her house. She put the can at her feet and Started yelling at every person that passed- “Mraoowww!! Mraooowwww!! Mraowwwwwwww!” Until finally someone stopped to help her! This human is not so bad, she thought as they used their hands to open up the can and placed it directly under her nose. “Nope!” Cried Shady Cat, yelling at the human, “I don’t like this kind!” THE END

HOWLED the WebComic
type: item
creator: joshua mcdermott
date: 2020-11-14T21:53:31Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: Hi All: Excited to to have the first two pages of HOWLED– my first attempt at a webcomic done. I will keep posting them hopefully at least once a week! It is a loose graphic interpretation of the story Sun Dog Howled in the Shady Cat series.
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Sun Dog Howled(14y+)
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creator: joshua mcdermott
date: 2020-10-03T05:35:39Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: Sun Dog Howled at midnight, preferring to sup at the epitome of darkness than the vagaries of between times, he offered his first challenge to the million stars and the single bright moon. At his feet a great bluff fell forward, towering above an ancient stone bridge spanning black waters, and he shifted his gaze. … Continue reading "Sun Dog Howled(14y+)"
encoded: Sun Dog Howled at midnight, preferring to sup at the epitome of darkness than the vagaries of between times, he offered his first challenge to the million stars and the single bright moon. At his feet a great bluff fell forward, towering above an ancient stone bridge spanning black waters, and he shifted his gaze. His second Howl was aimed there, a calling out of earth and stone and depthless sea. Turning away from all things, again he Howled, three times in all; the last in defiance of night itself. For he was the Dog of the Sun. Below the rising cliff three figures paused along the bridging span, sharp spikes of fear pounding from their hindbrains and shivering down their spines, pulsing like ancientrial drums through their bones. The reaction was instinctual, visceral, and physically painful as it vibrated through every inch of their bodies, from the top of their ringing skulls to the ends of their clenched fingers and tensed toes. One, a massive man called GraveHead, found himself growling out his own response to the call but kept it contained to his own cavernous chest. It would not do to alert the TollKeepers. “Doren, what say you?” “Not a wolf – bigger.” “Keep it tight.” GraveHead in the lead, the three moved forward as a unity, hands careful to hold weapons and packs firm to retard the slap and clank of equipment against mail and boiled leather. Humans were not allowed to cross the bridge and these three knew well the consequences of discovery. Merin, the female in the group, was the only one to have crossed before, but GraveHead still took the lead. For the first time since she joined the group, his chauvinist views were working her favor and she ceded the place with relief bordering upon gratefulness. The howls had shattered something in the night, waking the creaks and groans of the bridge as the dark waters swirled and lapped, patiently eroding what man once built. The cry of a sea bird rose and fell, impossible to locate in the darkness and the echoing …

Shady Cat and Isabelle
type: item
creator: joshua mcdermott
date: 2020-09-03T19:37:42Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: The days were cooling with the coming of fall which suited Shady Cat just fine. Summer was a lazy time for her, often filled with naps, eating, and then more naps. Sleeping and eating, when done to excess, can be exhausting and she felt perhaps the longer shadows and colder nights might help instigate a … Continue reading "Shady Cat and Isabelle"
encoded: The days were cooling with the coming of fall which suited Shady Cat just fine. Summer was a lazy time for her, often filled with naps, eating, and then more naps. Sleeping and eating, when done to excess, can be exhausting and she felt perhaps the longer shadows and colder nights might help instigate a more active lifestyle. To prove this point to herself, she played a game jumping from the shade of the tree, to the shade of the slide, to the shade of the jungle gym, then up to the shade by the stairs. Shady Cats are very good at jumping from shade to shade. The kids were gone, but would be back soon, this too she knew from years past. The days grow shorter, and the young ones come screaming into the classrooms, the basement, the play yard, the garden, and the blacktop. Worse would be band practice. That she was not looking forward to. Shady Cat padded up to the door where yesterday’s offering still lingered, old and spoiled now, and teeming with a thousand tiny black ants. Late, she thought. She was irritated but not surprised. It seemed these days that offerings were decreasing both in quantity and frequency. Shady Cat had a vague sense that this would have bothered her far more in the past than it does now. She sighed to herself in exasperation with the world and jumped back to the shade of the stairs, and then jumped to the shade of a desk. Inside was warmer than out, a sure sign that the season was turning and she wondered if this year would bring snow. Most cats hate snow, and many hate rain, but not Shady Cat. She enjoyed the cold, loved the crystal sparkling of ice and snow, and was not particular about getting wet as long as it was not a full drenching. Basement, she thought, when the weather turns the rats creep in. She usually liked to play with them, but today she was hungry, so she nabbed the first furry creature she saw and neatly broke his neck with a stroke of her paw. Lifting the limp body up she crunched its head between her sharp teeth, working h…

Entropy Short part 2
type: item
creator: joshua mcdermott
date: 2020-08-30T18:42:01Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: Markus Two Coats fumbled with the double wafer lock, a simple enough design, but it was not turning out to be his best day and the thing was giving him more trouble than its complexity warranted. Losing my touch, hand is unsteady. He took a sip from his hip flask to calm his nerves, but … Continue reading "Entropy Short part 2"
encoded: Markus Two Coats fumbled with the double wafer lock, a simple enough design, but it was not turning out to be his best day and the thing was giving him more trouble than its complexity warranted. Losing my touch, hand is unsteady. He took a sip from his hip flask to calm his nerves, but by then it’s half empty, and nothing seems to be cutting the edge off. His hands felt clumsy and inefficient, the steel of the picks cold against his even colder hands refusing to give him the familiar feedback that guides such delicate operations. Could also be the smell of puke and piss that pervades the stoop that is throwing his game, this particular street being behind several clubs and art houses it came with a certain ambiance. In the end it’s just persistence and a poor lock that gets him through the door and he pulls it open to reveal a small vestibule leading to stairs going up. The Woman in Green was here, of that he was sure of. The black Lincoln was parked directly in front, tinted windows and vanity B-MAJIK plates, it screamed for attention. Whoever these guys were, their game was intimidation and not subterfuge. When she had gotten in the car they both got out to escort her, and both screamed high end thug with smart silk suits too tight over muscled figures. Markus knew the best outcome of running into them square would be his ass thrown back into the pools of piss outside, and far worse outcomes were highly probable. Come on Markus, the client wasn’t even paying you for this. What the hell are you doing? But there was something about that first look he had of her, face in the window, that told a story he could not let go of. Pain there, and the kind of loss that triggered a part of himself that he sometimes thought gone forever. For a moment, he actually gave a shit, and if he let that go then he might as well just keep drinking until he never woke up. Speaking of, he took another pull, just in case they do throw me down the stairs, being a little drunk will sure hel…

Entropy Short
type: item
creator: joshua mcdermott
date: 2020-08-30T18:41:01Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: This is an evolving fantasy piece set in a contemporary setting. Markus Two Coats took a pause from peering through his telephoto lens, to contemplate the life choices that brought him to this dubious point. It was not something he preferred to be doing: If truth were to be faced, it was not the image … Continue reading "Entropy Short"
encoded: This is an evolving fantasy piece set in a contemporary setting. Markus Two Coats took a pause from peering through his telephoto lens, to contemplate the life choices that brought him to this dubious point. It was not something he preferred to be doing: If truth were to be faced, it was not the image of himself that he wanted to believe in. But it was a job, and one that he desperately needed to keep himself off the sun baked streets and capable of enjoying some of the few perks of being alive, one of which was kept lovingly in a small flask at his hip pocket. She wasn’t home, had not been for days, which was just fine by Markus for the sake of his conscience, but not exactly promising in terms of the job. But so far, the client had not offered a single complaint or critique of his progress. Watch her apartment, if anything happens get me evidence. Vague, more than slightly ominous, and one hundred percent stalker. I really need to examine my life choices, Markus nursed a little from the bottle, trying to keep himself back from what he really wanted to do. At least the night is looking to be beautiful. And it was. A casual observer might forgive him his camera, and suspect in him the romance of the photographer, seeking to capture the soul of a singular moment of darkness stung with light. Below him ran a long canal into a distant sea, over which slowly dipped a waxing red moon, pureness cut by the haze of water vapor and ambient city smog from the hot day now thankfully cooling into night. The apartment attached to the balcony where he now both worked and lived was more extravagant than his want, but paid for by the client, and afforded the most excellent view into the 3rd floor suite of his target. Behind and surrounding the apartment was a dark stucco building with obvious Spanish influence in its lofty windows and open plazas overfull with tropical plants and cooling pools. He had seen almost none of it in the week since he moved in, having ordered in for nearl…

Shady Cat goes to a Party
type: item
creator: joshua mcdermott
date: 2020-08-30T18:34:10Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: Shady Cat goes to a Party Shady Cat was out on the prowl, looking for some fun and maybe to find Sun Dog and steal his bone, which would be very funny. She jumped over a fence, ran across a shed roof, then down to the ground where she smelled something very interesting Yes, there … Continue reading "Shady Cat goes to a Party"
encoded: Shady Cat goes to a Party Shady Cat was out on the prowl, looking for some fun and maybe to find Sun Dog and steal his bone, which would be very funny. She jumped over a fence, ran across a shed roof, then down to the ground where she smelled something very interesting Yes, there was a cat yowling party planned tonight on the roof of a neighbor’s house! (Cats leave notes by smell…. by which I mean, they piss on things) The address was <insert your address here> and she was excited. So very fun to yowl and screech all night on a neighbors house! Shay cat ran to the address and sat on the roof and waited. But no other cats came. Soon the moon came up and darkness fell. Still no other cats. So Shady cat just howled and cried on her own “yawwwwwwllll, yyyaaaaaaawwllll!” Inside the house she heard people yelling something about a cat This jsut made her yowl even louder. “YAAAAAWWWWWLLLL! YYYYYYYAAAAAAAWWWWLLL!!! NYA NY NYA!” This made the humans inside even louder.. they also started screaming things. Great thought Shady cat, we got a party happening now! So she yowled and yowled and the humans yelled and yelled. When she got tired of that she went home. On the way home she saw a bunch of cats on another house roof yowling and screaming. Hmmm… must have got the address wrong. Oh well, Shady cat still had fun. Maybe she will go back tomorrow. THE END

Shady Cat and Spiky Mouse
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creator: joshua mcdermott
date: 2020-08-30T18:33:29Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: Shady Cat and the Mouse Shady cat woke up from her afternoon nap She almost went right back to sleep as the sun was high and the shade was cool and so very comfortable. But she heard something rustling and bustling near the old oak tree What could it be? Shady Cat was curious, and … Continue reading "Shady Cat and Spiky Mouse"
encoded: Shady Cat and the Mouse Shady cat woke up from her afternoon nap She almost went right back to sleep as the sun was high and the shade was cool and so very comfortable. But she heard something rustling and bustling near the old oak tree What could it be? Shady Cat was curious, and also excited Could be a bird, a squirrel, or a mouse or rat, or maybe even a rabbit! She liked to play with all of these squeaky things, and after playing, she would get so hungry she would gobble them right up! So Shady Cat jumped to the shade of the tree, as Shady Cats can. But the sound was not in the tree, it was in the bushes below. So she jumped to the shade of the bushes, and laid down flat so as not to be seen There, under the bush, as a big fat and very happy looking Mouse, eating bugs! Shady Cat was excited! But she kept still her swishing tail and moved slowly forward.. careful to make no noise! And she POUNCED! Nyahhhh~! Got you! In her head she was already throwing the mouse up in the air, catching and playing, and hearing its cries. But the mouse suddenly curled up into a ball, And Shady Cat’s paw hit spikes! Nyah Nyah Nyah! That hurts! This mouse is covered in spiky spines! Shady Cat did not like this mouse at all. So she went inside the house and yelled Nyah Nyah Nyah! Until someone gave her some love for her hurt and some kibbles for her hungry stomach But Shady Cat forgot the next day and Spiky Mouse was ready. THE END

Shady Cat and the Lost Fish
type: item
creator: joshua mcdermott
date: 2020-08-30T18:32:39Z
subject: Uncategorized
description: Shady Cat and the Lost Fish Shady Cat, you may know, often loses things. Today when she woke up, her Fish was gone! She really loved that fish. She had been saving that Fish to eat, fattening him up every day! Feeding him Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. But now the bowl was empty, no matter … Continue reading "Shady Cat and the Lost Fish"
encoded: Shady Cat and the Lost Fish Shady Cat, you may know, often loses things. Today when she woke up, her Fish was gone! She really loved that fish. She had been saving that Fish to eat, fattening him up every day! Feeding him Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. But now the bowl was empty, no matter how she looked, he was not there. Shady Cat looked all over the house, out in the yard, up and down the street! But no Fish. So she went back to the bowl and asked the Frog Have you seen my Fish? And the Frog said: “No, I have not seen any Fish.” “But if you could please feed me now it’s time for my Breakfast.” THE END