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Christopher Moore - Cats Karma CATSS KARMA by CHRISTOPHER MOORE Chriss Introduction to Cats Karma Back in 1987 I had yet to figure out that I was better at writing funny stories than scary ones. I had been sending horror stories to mainstream magazines who rewarded me with a stack of rejection slips, many of which included a scribbled note: A little too weird for our readers. My next step was to send these stories out to the mens magazines, who included horror stories in their listings in the Writers Market. Once again I was rewarded with a stack of rejection slips with this note: You write very well, but we do not publish any stories that do not include at least three explicit sex scenes. (By this time Id papered most of my bathroom with rejection slips.) Ah-ha! I said. I shall write an erotic fable. Cats Karma came out of that effort. Actually, after no one accepted the story I cleaned out the explicit sex scenes so I could show this story to my friends without them thinking I was a hopeless horndog, and this version is the end result. Cats Karma appears here for the first time ever, anywhere. I think its pretty rough, but it represents a period in my development as a writer, so Ive left it unedited. (Actually, I read that excuse in some other authors book of short stories and it sounded pretty credible and noble. I didnt edit this because Im lazy.) By the way, if youve read my books you might expect something funny in this story. It isnt there. Chang the fisherman was a poor man, but he always worked hard. Too hard, some said. He was the first of the fishermen out to sea in the morning and the last into the market at night. He usually brought in more fish than the other fishermen, but because his were the last in, the fish merchant paid him less for each fish, telling Chang they were worth less because they were not as fresh. Chang persevered in his habits of working longer and harder, for he believed that if it did not benefit