Suzie Lucifer and Yoda Lucifer – the Lucifer Sisters -- are sister cats but not by birth. And yes, they certainly are devils! But loveable devils, of course. I found them both homeless at about six weeks old and perhaps a year apart. Suzie Lucifer appeared first, near the harbor at South Haven, Michigan. I kept hearing a sound and didn’t know what it was and so I traced it to a car and found a tiny orange kitten sitting on top of a tire and crying. She was hungry and I fed her whitefish from a nearby restaurant. Recently I wrote a children’s book about finding her called The Cat in Kalamazoo. I’m looking for a publisher who might want it. Driving Suzie Lucifer home to Kalamazoo that day, 33 miles way, was an adventure because I had to hold her in one hand and shift a manual transmission – while also steering (and manual steering at that) in a 1974 Datsun 260 Z I used to have. Just a year later, I heard a noise from outside my Kalamazoo house. It was summer and Suzie Lucifer alerted me to the sound as she sat in a window overlooking the driveway. The sound came and went, just like that day in South Haven when I found Suzie Lucifer. The first time I went out, I didn’t find anything, but the sound came back and I went out again and found a tiny grey and white kitten cowering in the bushes and she joined the household as Yoda Lucifer. Her face made me think of Yoda from Star Wars fame. I like to think that Suzie Lucifer kept my attention focused on the sound so that I would find her a sister to play with. Six years later, they still play together often and are truly the Lucifer Sisters. If you enjoyed that tale, consider buying my new novel, The Armageddon Two-Step, which will be released on Dec. 3 by Redbat Books. My blog/website is michaelloydgray.weebly.com The Armageddon Two-Step is a novel about reality and truth built for the Age of Trump; a comedic farce tinted with magical realism about a young man named Shelby Albert Goddard who saves the world and then must live with the consequences. --Michael Loyd Gray
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AuthorMichael Loyd Gray is an author and a friend to cats, as well as a lifelong fan of the Rolling Stones, Chicago Bears, and Fender guitars. Archives
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