Thanks! The Cat actually is a real cat blogged about by @GuyTMartland, whom I found through @carolkean's post. That link is above. I know you're a writer so I hope you don't mind my saying a few things about this.
I SPENT A LONG TIME WRITING THIS! Who knew a 500 word story could take half a day to write?!
And it was super fun, almost obsessive, to do so. It had to be perfect! It even had to explain the cigar. How they got to this point seemed critical to cover, and since I was running out of words (500 word limit) what happens after I left to the reader's imagination.
It;s really great to have a word limit - made me take any superfluous out, and get the thing down to essentials. I wish every writer would do that. How many 800 page books have I read that could have been completed in 400 pages? This is a great excercise. I hear curie visits the posts fairly often, so you might want to get in on the action.