Zelly’s Midnight Battle
Zelly’s Midnight Battle“Damn you cats. Quit waking me up at midnight. If you don’t shut up, I’ll shoot the lot of you which, of course, will bring Constable Miller of Dafter pounding on my front door in the morning.” With that, Zelly reaches for the shotgun propped by the side of her bed, walks downstairs, opens the back door of her well-kept house, and shoots into the night sky. The shrieking stops as she hears strays, as well as her own cats, run in every direction. She shouts a loud scat into the air and fires again. On the way back to her bedroom, she misses the top step. It isn’t until she hits the floor that she realizes her mistake.
scat “Goddamnit,” she says as she props herself into an upright position. “Goddamn everything to hell and back especially the
