This is just an odd little story from my life.
About
twenty years ago, I worked the midnight shift at a convenience store. The store was five or six blocks from my
apartment, and to save money on gas and just to get out, I used to walk to work. One night while I was going to work, something
in the shadows of a bank parking lot caught my eye. I looked at it, but I did not know what it
was. The first description that came to
mind was a headless gnome. It looked
like a little torso – a couple inches high – with short legs that was walking
towards me.
I
don’t believe in ghosts, or goblins, or anything like that. But for a second or two, I could not identify
what this thing was, and I was just ….
It
was a cat. It was dark grey/black and in
the streetlight shadows blended in perfectly to the parking lot pavement. It had a white spot on its chest, which ran
down its front legs. With the rest of
the cat blending into the background, this white spot looked like a headless
torso walking towards me on stubby legs.
Once
I saw the cat, I burst out laughing. I’m
pretty sure I doubled over, and couldn’t collect myself for a minute or
two.
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