Don't Save the Cat

By: L D Houghton, Patrick Graham

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

It is twelve years since the Great Reconfiguration and life in the continent-spanning network of Smart Houses is safe, sedentary, and sedated.

Karl, Sam, and their children navigate this reality through implants and mood-balancing stims, living as much in the digital as the physical realm.

However, when a tiny, impossible kitten enters their lives – unregistered, unthinkable, and utterly forbidden - a sequence of events is set in motion that will shatter their carefully constructed, user friendly world.

As their home twists and turns against them, comfort becomes confinement, security becomes threat, and the lines between the real and the simulated blur into terror.

Is the House malfunctioning, or has something new been born inside the walls?

Don’t Save the Cat: There’s no putting this one back in the bag…