My Moms Cat Vanished After Her Funeral, on Christmas Eve, He Returned and Led Me Somewhere I Never Expected
Four days before Christmas, the house felt suspended in a frozen, unnatural silence. The string lights my mother had insisted on hanging weeks earlier still glowed along the window frames, their uneven flicker casting a soft, stubborn warmth that clashed painfully with the emptiness she had left behind. She had loved those lights, even…