My Cat Pluto: A Short Story

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As I stood there silently and unsteadily I have no idea what i just have done I hung my cat pluto. Why must I lash out and do actions like this. I leave the room and while i'm walking out of the room to the bar to get a drink I yell at my wife to be quiet and go do something slamming the door behind me. As i'm walking down the street to the bar I see this stray cat pondering down the avenue. As I try to walk up to it I realized its eye is missing and I immediately think of pluto as I storm away to run from my emotions. As I walk up to the bar I realized the name of the bar was different it was called pluto's tavern i storm into the tavern and yell at the bar tender to give me a pint and he yells no you drunk and i say once more even louder give me a pint as i take a seat the bartender grabs a club from under the counter and yell you have to the count of 3 to get out. I get up and i hear my heart pouncing real fast scary kind of but i didn't make anything of it i just ran back home.

As i walk into my house i see my wife in the room i hung pluto in and she is sobbing and when i enter the room she turns around and unleashes a wrath she went completely insane and was infuriated on what i have done. I tell her i have no idea what i did and why i did it
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I couldn't tell if it was sadness or guilt or both. That night laying in bed was absolutely terrible but i got up that morning after and went out with nothing to do. As i strolled through the town i noticed that there was a lot of people by black forest and my heart stopped. I ran over to the people and asked what's going on and the townspeople say that they saw a man last night with a shovel and wheelbarrow going into the forest and when he left he sprinted into town. My heart was racing telling me something's wrong. I run home to make sure if they find out it’s me they wont find anything. An hour or so goes by and the police are at my

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