The Cat Beneath the Mirror
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Last published Mon, Oct 13, 2025
A reimagining inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat.
In this gothic reimagining inspired by Poe's "The Black Cat," a man's compassion for a stray black cat slowly twists into fear, guilt, and insanity. As strange reflections begin to haunt his mirrors, he realizes that what he fears most isn't the cat itself-but the darkness that lives within his own soul.
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