Via Matt Cheney, SciFiction has reprinted a brilliant, touching story by Fritz Leiber. Matt is right — it is the perfect cat story, and its a lot more. Go read it.
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Royalty was like dandelions. No matter how many heads you chopped off, the roots were still there underground, waiting to spring up again.
It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.
-- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
