The black cat twitched its tail twice, then it hissed, then it jumped off the log it was sitting on. There had been more and more black cats in the city than normal. They kept appearing on sidewalks, in allies, on roofs, and I even found one in my backyard! This wasn't normal and it seemed like I was the only one that noticed, I once saw one jump out of a mom's baby carriage and she didn't  even blink. I tried to talk to my parents about it but they just stared off into space, they looked like they were under a trance. It has been three weeks since I've spoken to anyone about it, actually, anyone at all. Everybody in Walter Kings has been walking the same way that my parents act, trance-like. To be honest here, it is starting to sketch me out.
       One day as I was walking, I saw this girl that was not walking like her brain had been scrubbed clean of all memories and emotion. Her expression showed fear and confusion like she'd fallen asleep in Australia and woken up here. Our gazes connected and you could see the relief flood into her as she realized that she wasn't the only normal human being here. She started coming my direction. Something inside me stirred and I realized how lonely I'd been without anybody to talk to. "What the heck is going on?" She asked, now that she was up close, I could see that she had high cheekbones, sparkling blue, eyes and full lips that made her quite attractive. 'Uhhhh" I couldn't think of something to say. girls always did that to me, especially cute ones. "Well, I'm Waiting." She snapped me back into reality and I saw her tapping her foot with her arms crossed. Obviously she wasn't the most patient person in the world. "I have no idea, but I think that they have been brain washed or something." I replied back nervously. She thought for a moment. The black cats meowing were the only sound around as we stood there wishing so hard. It felt only fair for the answer to pop right out of the air and show us the way to get rid of this problem, if there was one...
     Suddenly, all the people on the street, sidewalk, and grass stopped. Every single one of them picked up a cat and started to surround us. Just as they were closing in, the girl started to laugh, and laugh, and laugh. You'd think it was a nervous laugh, no, it was a menacing, horrible, and evil laugh. She turned towards me and she has the face of a cat! She was still laughing until I punched her in her frightening kitty face and broke her pink little nose. She dropped like a rag doll and all the black cats disappeared. And I'm not talking about the running away kind of disappeared, no I mean POOF! They vanished from their human slaves arm's. The people looked around curiously, seriously, THEY HAD CURIOUS LOOKS ON THEIR FACE! It turns out that the mystery girl was actually an evil cat witch, and was controlling our whole town with the eyes of her black cat minions who turned out to be lost souls. My punch hadn't just broken her nose, the force I created was enough to cause amnesia! She forgot she was an evil cat witch and moved away to find her family. Everybody in Walter Kings didn't remember a thing. All they remember is looking into one of the cats eyes and waking up in the park around me with an unconscious broken nosed girl on the ground. And every body lived happily with no more interruptions...  "MEOW"

-Brandon Gough