Kiera Johnson

Mar 20, 2024 | reactormag.com | Kiera Johnson |Ruoxi Chen |Lindsey Hall

In a future where human souls take the form of animal companions, Hairuo struggles to keep her cat fed on the tedium of her day-to-day, until she meets an enigmatic stranger who has a well-fed cat…and an appetite of his own. as if awakened, she turns her face to yours;and with a shock, you see yourself, tiny,inside the golden amber of her eyeballssuspended, like a prehistoric fly. —Rilke, “Black Cat”[1]Hairuo was the only person in the neighbourhood who had a cat.