Prompt Response: Heat

This piece was originally published in the Our Town section of the Tracy Press on December 11, 2004, adapted for this prompt, and read at Books, Inc., Alameda in 2016.

Burning to Sell the House*

About 20 years ago, when my then husband and I were selling our house and the kids were young and adorable and doing everything they could to sabotage us, I learned the hard way that cats are flammable.  

And, if the tail goes up first, and it’s full and fluffy enough, the cat won’t know he’s on fire. He’ll just walk around in c…